LEAKED DOCS EXPOSE MASSIVE SYRIA PROPAGANDA OPERATION WAGED BY WESTERN GOVT CONTRACTORS AND MEDIA [When you control most of the world's media you have the ability to create any narrative you desire. Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support in the West for Syria’s political and armed opposition. Virtually every aspect of the Syrian opposition was cultivated and marketed by Western government-backed public relations firms, from their political narratives to their branding, from what they said to where they said it. The leaked files reveal how Western intelligence cutouts played the media like a fiddle, carefully crafting English- and Arabic-language media coverage of the war on Syria to churn out a constant stream of pro-opposition propaganda. US and European contractors trained and advised Syrian opposition leaders at all levels, from young media activists to the heads of the parallel government-in-exile. These firms also organized interviews for Syrian opposition leaders on mainstream outlets such as BBC and the UK’s Channel 4. More than half of the stringers used by Al Jazeera in Syria were trained in a joint US-UK government program called Basma, which produced hundreds of Syrian opposition media activists.](https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78074/leaked-docs-expose-massive-syria-propaganda-operation-waged-by-western-govt-contractors-and.html)