Good point - what's going on in Bahrain is real bad - but the main media doesn't make so much of it like it does for Syria.
The sad part about
Bahrain is that the troubles there are grossly over hyped in the media, as the folks who live there will tell you. Great shame that not only the media but, it appears, the British foreign office are unaware of Bahrain's history. The island is claimed by Iran as Iranian territory and the Iranians have, to a greater or lesser extent, been stirring trouble there for at least fifty years to my knowledge. Initially they would smuggle agitators in by Dhow who would go among the Shia villages spreading discontent, often the characters were picked by the security forces, jailed for a few months for illegal entry, then slung out. When the Gulf war started in 1991 CNN gave the dissidents all the opportunities to publicise their cause they could have wished for and Iranian TV became receivable in Bahrain. Now, with the 'Arab Spring' uprisings they have once more taken advantage of media interest in the Middle East and have been rabble rousing, all the time aided and abetted by the Iranians, funny how this seems to slip past all the commentators. It would help if people paid a visit to Bahrain and lived there a while before telling the world what a terrible place it is.
Fallujah: Widely written that the behaviour of the Americans was attributed to the atrocities they discovered that had been perpetrated by the occupants of Fallujah on captured, tortured and murdered US servicemen.
Kuwait: After all the dust had settled it was admitted by the Kuwaiti government that the babies in incubators stories were not true but had been deliberately put about to increase sympathy to the Kuwait people. What doesn't get talked about so much is the number of foreign maids that were left in Kuwait by their employers, without any documentation and who the Iraqis then took to Iraq, some managed to get home after the resumption of hostilities in 2003, many are still listed as 'missing'.