it's really across the board: the so-called liberal press (like the toronto star, or the guardian) is universally supporting the islamic fundamentalist rebels over the secularists in the assad regime.

it's just a reminder that the press serves the interests of capital, and has little interest in promoting politics, except as a pragmatic tool to serve it's masters.

if it was about ideology and maximizing freedom, you would expect these sources to support assad over the rebels. this is, after all, the reason the rebels can't win: the syrian people (rightly) see them as a bunch of tyrannical terrorists that want to enforce sharia law. they're fully aware that they'll have more freedoms under assad than they will under any combination of islamic rebels that may take over and start slaughtering the infidels and cleansing the population by ethnicity.

but, it's not about ideology and it's not about what is best for the syrian people, as the syrian people themselves have very clearly decided. it's about acting as an arm of propaganda for an aggressive military machine that wants to push the russians out of the middle east at any cost.