The American Bear   Lazy Western correspondents: the Syrian
regime was supposed to fall today | As'ad AbuKhalil  I have not
seen Western correspondents (most of them and not all of them)
as lazy as I have seen them in this Syria story.  They merely
reproduce what they receive from Qatari-funded press and
propaganda offices of the Syrian National Council and Ikhwan in
Cairo and elsewhere.  They don’t bother to do much independent
reporting (with few exceptions).  The bunch at the New York
Times (after the death of Shadid) is a glaring example of this
lazy trend and this skype obsession.  So the Syrian National
Council folks told all journalists that the scenario is simple:
that if the Syrian regime accepts a cease-fire, it will bring an
end to the regime. That once it accepts a cease-fire and removes
its troops (or most of them), the Syrian people will turn out in
the millions and Bashshar will fall overnight.  Obviously, that
did not happen and obviously (surprisingly if you have been
reading the Western pres