Videos posted to YouTube from inside a border station at the new gate showed a rebel tearing up a poster of al-Assad, while another rebel smashed portraits of the president and his father, Hafez al-Assad, who led the country until 2000.
By virtue of its status as the nation's largest radio station owner, with 1, 214 stations controlling 11% of the airwaves, Clear Channel has become the poster child for the sins of media consolidation.