Deception By Omission

[MrSoundAndVision]

Posted at http://www.oasistv.com/news/11-21-03-story-2.asp

Friday, November 21, 2003
Editorial: The Media & Kucinich
DECEPTION BY OMISSION
By Charley Cropley, ND

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BOULDER, Colorado--November 21, 2003--I am amazed and frightened to have discovered only recently how successfully and subtly my perceptions and my sense of personal power are manipulated by our media. Until then, I considered myself well aware of the media's motives and methods and therefore immune to their manipulation. However I have been more profoundly deceived and disempowered than I had thought possible. My deception runs deep; the consequences enormous.

I have come to recognize my deeper, more dangerous level of deception through a process of inquiring into why so many of my friends think Dennis Kucinich is not electable. Among my friends, most say "Yes, nobody better represents me than Dennis Kucinich. But I don't think he's electable." I kept asking my friends, "Why? Please explain to me why you think that." I have not heard a single answer that is even slightly satisfying, even from my more intelligent and politically informed friends.

I love those moments when I recognize that something doesn't make sense to me. When I see clearly that I simply do not understand something and I need to investigate it more thoroughly. I reached that place with regard to Dennis being "not electable." I realized that I did not understand what the term "not electable" actually means. "Why?" I asked myself. "Why is he 'not electable?' What specifically makes him not electable?"

Only months ago I had never heard of Dennis Kucinich. Lila Sophia Tresemer was the first person that spoke to me of how genuinely moved she was by him. Although I highly respect Lila, I thought to myself that somewhere, somehow this man must be another New Age candidate without a chance. It was precisely because I'd never heard of him that caused me to assume he must lack something. I wasn't sure what it was, but there must be some reason that I'd not even heard of him. It was hard for me to imagine that someone whose name I'd never heard could be a serious candidate for president.
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Please read on, it's the end that's the best, I thought I'd be fair and not chop it up.

[MuseRider]

1. I wrote to the

author of that piece and he responded already. He told me that the best way to bring about understanding is to be understanding.

[jbutsz]

2. They ignore who they can,

and demonize who they cannot. That's the M.O. of the media, indeed.

There is no question of whether the media is collusive with establishment power. DK and those like him would expose the establishment power structure by way of challenging it in front of a nation that listens to it's President more than anyone else.

Someone like DK is dangerous to their interests.