A
Syrian-born journalist has slammed the New York Daily News and the
Independent newspaper for not accusing Syrian rebels of shelling
areas belonging to government forces, lamenting that the MSM is not
covering all sides of the war.
Harout
Ekmanian was speaking to RT about his disbelief at the deliberate
misreporting of the death of a Syrian swimmer and her 12-year-old
brother.
Mireille
Hindoyan and her younger sibling were killed in the Villi district of
West Aleppo on Friday.
“I
think the first victim of the war is the truth, especially in the
Syrian war where journalism and journalists suffered a lot.
Preserving impartiality has become a very difficult task for
journalists,” he said.
Ekmanian,
who now lives in New York, wrote an editorial in the New York Daily
News explaining what had happened, only for the publication to remove
a section in which he said the rebels were responsible for the deaths
of the brother and sister.
“The
New York Daily News published my contribution, but a paragraph was
removed. I don’t think personally that was a very serious editorial
decision and I am still waiting for an explanation,” he told
RT.
Ekmanian,
who originally hails from the Armenian district in Aleppo, says he
has spoken to eyewitnesses who “specifically confirmed” that the
bombing was carried out by “rebel shelling.” His forays into
writing for major US publications have also uncovered disheartening
truths about how the conflict in Syria is being reported, he says.
“The
issue of this media censorship or media bias about some facts about
the Syrian war [shows] there is a general atmosphere of media bias or
restricting the narrative to certain news trends. I think this is the
general issue that I see to the experience that I went through.”
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