Lying by Omission
Aside from making mountains out of molehills to promote certain agendas, the mainstream media regularly lies by omission, purposefully ignoring important stories they don’t want people to know about. So, while at the same time they’re having endless panel discussions and rehashing the same story every night for a week or sometimes months, absent from that airtime are important topics that should actually be discussed at length and reported on in detail with the network’s resources to ensure a large number of people hear about them; but covering those stories would be counterproductive to their agenda.
Pulitzer Prize wining writer Nicholas Kristof made a profound statement that illustrates the power and the danger of ignoring important stories when he was talking about the War in Darfur, Africa, where an estimated 300,000 people died from ongoing fighting between different tribes in the Sudan. “The news media’s silence,” he said, “particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.”158
The New York Times lied to millions of Americans for over a year by withholding all stories about the NSA’s mass-surveillance of Americans after the editor-in-chief had a meeting at the White House where the Bush administration asked him to keep quiet about it.159 The New York Times couldn’t stop their own reporter James Risen from releasing his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, which contained detailed revelations of the domestic spying operation, and because The Times didn’t want to be scooped by their own reporter’s book, they reluctantly published a story on the massive illegal eavesdropping program being conducted by the NSA and even admitted they sat on it for a year.160
The decades of blackouts regarding the Bilderberg Group’s annual meeting and the weird activities that go on inside the Bohemian Grove every summer can only be explained by an overt effort to keep these topics out of the national news in the United States.161 Certainly they’re newsworthy and interesting topics that you would expect to be making headlines and included in the nightly news on the big television networks, but it’s as if they don’t exist.162
When every June, one hundred or so of the world’s most powerful people gather in a fancy hotel surrounded by armed guards for three days to discuss geopolitics and the global economy, certainly it’s something significant that should be reported on. But only in recent years with word of the Bilderberg Group spreading through social media have some national outlets begun to mention it, with usually nothing more than a fifteen second segment or one lonely news article online that’s buried at the bottom of the page.163
A British newspaper tycoon named Lord Northcliffe, who founded The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, is often credited with having said, “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”164
During the 2016 presidential campaign when peaceful Trump supporters kept being assaulted as they were leaving Trump rallies or targeted on the street for wearing their red “Make America Great Again” hats, most incidents were only briefly covered in local papers or by online conservative outlets.165 These politically motivated attacks weren’t just rare or isolated incidences, they were part of a disturbing pattern that was ignored by the liberal media, despite videos and photos of the attacks going viral online.166
The mainstream media is also always reluctant to call politically motivated riots what they are when leftists instigate them, and instead usually just call them ‘protests’ when they’re perpetrated by Black Lives Matter supporters, college students trying to prevent conservative speakers from holding their events, and even in the case of leftist anarchists rioting after Trump’s inauguration.
In Ferguson, Missouri, the birthplace of Black Lives Matter, Michael Brown’s stepfather urged an angry crowd to “burn this bitch down” after a grand jury decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Brown, the 6-foot-4, three hundred pound thug who attacked him after being confronted shortly after robbing a convenience store.167 As I’m sure you recall, the lawless thugs rioted and looted liquor stores, broke into hair salons to steal weaves which are popular in the black community, and set local businesses on fire.168 CNN host Jason Carroll admitted that the network chose to censor footage of people rioting in Ferguson, because it didn’t fit with how they were trying to frame their coverage.169
Anti-police hatred boiled over in July 2016 when a black supremacist opened fire on police officers in Dallas, Texas during a Black Lives Matter march, killing five officers and wounding nine others. The perpetrator was a 25-year-old black man who was incited to violence from the mainstream media continuing to paint police as racists who regularly kill African Americans and get away with it. This horrible tragedy was in the news for just a few days, and then it was quickly forgotten. Many people started comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to “the black KKK” and began labeling them a hate group, but the liberal media continued to frame them as if they were a modern day civil rights group, despite regular violence at their events, chanting about killing cops when they marched, and now a Black Lives Matter-inspired terrorist attack on police officers.
When Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at U.C. Berkeley, leftists wearing black ski masks began rioting, smashing windows in school buildings and setting things on fire, which led to Milo’s speech being canceled for safety reasons. One commentator on CNN actually said he thought that Breitbart News and Milo secretly organized the riots themselves as a false flag in order to get him more publicity.170 He just couldn’t bring himself to admit that liberals were regularly using violence to silence and intimidate conservatives.
When we began seeing the rise of Antifa, which are leftist anarchists who wear all black (including ski masks) and see themselves as “freedom fighters” who embrace violence and assault Trump supporters and anyone who supports Conservatism (or as they call them “Nazis”), the liberal media compared them to American patriots who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.171 Many in the liberal media framed conservative ideas as ‘violent’ and claimed that Antifa’s violence was ‘ethical’ because they aimed to stop ‘hate speech.’172 Antifa literally look like ISIS terrorists and should be declared a terrorist organization, but for months the mainstream media kept ignoring them and the only place you would even hear of Antifa was on social media by people who were posting videos and photos of their increasingly violent acts.173
While the majority of illegal immigrants who snuck into the United States did so to seek a better life for themselves and their families, unfortunately an extraordinarily high number of them have ties to Latin American gangs or bring the lawless mentality of their own countries to ours. The fact is, each year illegal aliens commit countless serious crimes◦— from human trafficking, to violent assaults, rape and murder; and most of these crimes are only reported on the local news in a 15 or 30 second segment.
Department of Justice statistics reveal that one out of every four federal prison inmates are actually foreign-born.174 But a source within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed that before the Trump administration the federal government did not keep statistics on illegal immigrant crime.175