When a media spokesperson makes a claim like that, he or she should make sure of its truth or refuse to repeat the falsehood.
Those who have been misinforming their audiences are intelligent enough
to know that they are deceiving their viewers. Is it possible, for
example, that any news reporter would not know of the media’s
anti-Islamic brainwashing?
How can they continue to report on events like the Quran burning or the
objections to the planned Islamic centre in New York without exposing
the Islamaphobia? Where has the Muslim angle or point of view in the
news been?
The internet is full of examples of under-reported news. One source of such stories is Project Censored, which lists the top censored stories of 2011:
1. Global plans to replace the dollar
2. US Department of Defence is the worst polluter on the planet
3. Internet privacy and personal access at risk
4. ICE operates secret detention and courts
5. Blackwater (Xe): the secret US war in Pakistan
6. Health care restrictions cost thousands of lives in US
7. External capitalist forces wreak havoc in Africa
8. Massacre in Peruvian Amazon over US Free Trade Agreement
9. Human rights abuses continue in Palestine
10. US Funds and supports the Taliban
Harvard Professor Stephen Walt reports that as early as 2005, 78 per
cent of the news media, 72 per cent of military leaders and 69 per cent
of foreign affairs specialists believed that backing Israel seriously
damages America's image around the world.
That factual revelation isn’t something you hear on TV. If 78 per cent
of the news media hold that belief, they are not reporting it.
Ex-Israeli author and jazz musician Gilad Atzmon writes regular internet columns on the Middle East. He has zero respect for the mainstream media, commenting:
Our independent websites and
blogs are far more informative than the mainstream media. Collectively,
we provide a source of information that people can trust, and we are
rapidly becoming the main source of information.
Facebook, Twitter, blogs and websites with alternative news and commentary are slowly making mainstream media obsolete.
Major stories have been censored by the mainstream media. Often the
censorship raises questions about why an important story has been
censored.
The media has kept the fact that Obama has cut domestic spending while
increasing military spending under wraps. Much military spending is
unjustifiable and wasted.
Apart from any conspiracy theories about 9/11, serious questions about
discrepancies in the official reports have been totally ignored by
leading commentators.
Also censored by the networks are health risks in personal products like cosmetics and suntan lotion with nanotech particles.
Not satisfied with manufacturing cover-ups, the networks have now
resorted to brainwashing viewers with lies about reporting the news from
all angles and all points of view.