Syria: the war, the media, the truths

Wars, civil wars and revolutions tend to create multiple truths rather than any one easily-agreeable truth. And the civil war in Syria, now raging since March 2011 (over 100,000 dead and 4 million refugees according to the UN) with little indication of any imminent cessation of hostilities, is no exception. How has the Western media fared in dealing with the complexities of reporting on such a catastrophe?