Read the article to see how Sinclair reaches the following conclusion:
...the government prefers to treat the public like mushrooms – keeping them in the dark and feeding them bullshit. And with our supposedly crusading, disputatious, stroppy and difficult fourth estate unable or unwilling to report basic facts and to connect some very simple dots, what chance does the general public have of ever gaining even a basic understanding of what the West is doing in Syria?What Sinclair doesn't seem to be aware of is that the Empire's ruling transnational capitalist class must always (as always) keep people in the dark when their actions are clearly criminal. Corporate media coverage of reality is always used as the first line of defense against ordinary people whose support must be obtained for capitalists to have their way in the world at the expense and lives of ordinary people.