When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

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