WATCH: SYRIAN ‘MODERATE REBEL’ REMOVES ISIS PATCH AT PROMPTING OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST.

Video footage has recently emerged taken by journalist James Longman advising ‘rebels’ in Syria that the ISIS logo on their uniforms will be misunderstood by Western audiences. Longman, who is ABC News’ Chief International Correspondent, demonstrates a trend of American journalists going to war zones to essentially coach combatants on how to better present themselves to the outside world. Mainstream media has for many years pushed the myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria seeking to topple Assad, which they finally did this month.

Shades of “The Mao Tse Tung Hour” segment in Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 film Network, where television executives haggled with a Symbionese Liberation Army-inspired revolutionary group over the best way to portray their terrorism on network television. Chayefsky thought he was writing satire; he instead gave American network television an endless catalog of ideas for shows.