Intelligence in news of war?

I have been impelled to write this short article after closely following the reportage in your and other newspapers of the evolving military situation in Syria, citing dispatches by the British news agency, Reuters. As I went through my clippings of such Reuters reports over the last one month, I could not but be hit by a distinct and consistent negative orientation of the reports towards the Army and the government of President Bashar al-Assad, not reflected in the reports of, say, the AFP.