RT has the article Footage of chemical attack in Syria is fraud.

There is proof the footage of the alleged chemical attack in Syria was fabricated, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, told RT. She says she is about to submit her findings to the UN.

Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, who has been living in Syria for 20 years and has been reporting actively on what has been going on in the war-ravaged country, says she carefully studied the video featuring allegedly victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August and now questions its authenticity.

See, isn’t this what I have been telling you.  To add to the credibility of this story, let me fill in some of the missing pieces.  RT did or  does stand for Russia Today.  (I used to work for RCA, the former Radio Corporation of America, that put on all its written press releases something like, “The name of our company is RCA.  The letters do not stand for anything else.”)

Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib is concerned about the Christian minorities who have been attacked by the rebels. She also mentions “the brutal killing spree in Latakia on Laylat al-Qadr” carried out by by Jabhat al-Nusra according to the interviewer from RT.  In a question about some hostages taken by the rebels Mother Agnes says:

A total of twelve Alawite villages were subjected to this horrendous attack.

According to the reports I read Jabhat al-Nusra is related to Al Qaeda, and Bashar Assad is from the Alawite tribe.

So, clearly Mother Agnes is a disinterested party, as is RT, a Russian news organization.  We have every reason to take these sources at their word as opposed to believeing anything that President Obama has to say.

All kidding aside, it is very difficult to sort out the truth from the propaganda or how much of either type of journalism may or may not appear in any news source you read.  Stay skeptical, keep your wits about you, and try not to be blind-sided because of anything you heard, read, or saw.

The heading I used when I cross posted this article on Google+ and on Facebook was the following:

Do not kid yourself into thinking that if you read the news from both sides, you can take the average and come up with the truth.  The truth may be way off in the distance of the line handed to you by either side or the line that runs from one side to the other.