Syria's Media Tug of War

As fighting in Syria continues, so does the media's battle to tell the story. This month, four journalists were killed while reporting from the besieged city of Homs. In their absence, making sense of the story means making sense of shaky sources of information: the al-Assad government spinning the story its way, through outlets the state controls; the often nameless, faceless activists getting information out via the web and, increasingly, the Free Syrian Army, a loosely affiliated group of disparate voices which some say is a media construct itself. Our News Divide this week looks at Syria and the polarised media narratives making it hard to find the middle ground.