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On May 31, UK-based Media Lens headlined "The Houla Massacre," saying:
Scoundrel media commentaries told readers "where to direct their anger." Assad's government is called "brutal." Blame focuses solely on him.
Sunday in the London Independent, David Randall "wrote bitterly:"
"He is the President; she is the First Lady; they are dead children. He governs but doesn't protect; she shops and doesn't care.""And one hopes that those on the United Nations Security Council, when it reconvenes, will look into the staring eyes of these dead children and remember the hollow words of Assad's wife when she simpered that she 'comforts the families' of her country's victims."
Media Lens countered:
"What kind of evidence would the media need before finding Barack Obama (and even Michelle Obama) personally responsible" for slaughtering Afghans and others in US war theaters?
An Observer cartoon showed Assad "with his mouth and face smeared with the blood of children." The Independent showed him "sitting in a bath filled with blood."
Media Lens challenged Observer cartoonist Martin Rowson, saying:
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