Comedy site cracked.com interviews Syrian refugees

[kalibex]

Yes, you read that correctly. Cracked.com apparently sent a couple of their people out and did original journalism.

We're not going to mince words here: It's really freaking hard to get the average person to care about some civil war in the Middle East. The news from that part of the world is an endless barrage of images of bombed-out buildings and broken people -- it just becomes white noise after a while. So, your Facebook feed starts blowing up with tales of all the tragic refugees from the conflict in Syria, including the now-famous photo of a 3-year-old who drowned trying to escape the conflict, and you say, "That's sad; hopefully that stuff, uh, stops soon."

What can you do? After all, we just write comedy lists on the Internet; what the hell are we going to do, send over a correspondent to cover it firsthand? Sure, why not. We sent a writer and a photographer out to the Serbia-Hungary border to speak with a few dozen of the 3 million Syrians who have fled their homeland so far.

There's a touch of the usual anti-Assad propaganda, but still...

_http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1916-we-met-syrias-war-refugees-7-awful-things-they-told-us.html_