NBC’s Conduct in Engel Kidnapping Story is More Troubling than the Brian Williams Scandal

(updated below – Update II)

Throughout 2012,numerous American factions were pushing for U.S. intervention in Syria to bring down the regime of Bashar Assad, who throughout the War on Terror had helped the U.S. in all sorts of ways, including torturing people for them.But by then,Assad was viewed mostly as an ally of Iran, and deposing him would weakenTehran, the overarching regional strategy of the U.S. and its allies. The prevailing narrative wasthus created that those fighting against Assad...