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CJCRANE

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9. The Syrian rebels have been committing atrocities for years.

Reply to Igel (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 15, 2014, 12:46 PM

Nov 2014

It's been interesting watching things play out in Syria and Iraq almost completely ignored by the TV news channels and programs until the Sinjar event.

If you remember in the summer the media was focused almost entirely on Gaza and ignored what was happening in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Only when that wound down did the TV news have space to change its focus onto the Sinjar exodus (even though similar events had been ongoing for years).

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