Suddenly, Assad Not Such a Bad Guy?: On TIME’s Exclusive Photos of ISIS – Syrian Battle

Last week, TIME published a photo story (Besieged by ISIS: Photographs From Inside the Syrian City of Deir ez-Zor) that raises concerns for me about objectivity. It’s hard to see the seventeen images or the words as doing more than serving the propaganda aims of the Assad government, making me further wonder if the sympathy for the Syrian government and the Syrian Army wasn’t, at least tacitly, the price of access.