The lying is intentional, and it is systematic; but it is so on only
the most important news-topics, the ones that affect the nation’s
aristocracy as a whole, rather than competing interests within it. On
these issues, the lying is pervasive.
What, precisely, are the most important news-topics to America’s aristocracy? The questions that aren’t being asked in a given nation’s press are what show, in the clearest way, what the most important facts are, in order for an ordinary citizen to be able to understand the world without the oligarchs’ systematic distortions and colorations of it.
A case-in-point is the events in Ukraine during this year:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/pervasive-lying-u-s-uk-news-media.html
What, precisely, are the most important news-topics to America’s aristocracy? The questions that aren’t being asked in a given nation’s press are what show, in the clearest way, what the most important facts are, in order for an ordinary citizen to be able to understand the world without the oligarchs’ systematic distortions and colorations of it.
A case-in-point is the events in Ukraine during this year:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/pervasive-lying-u-s-uk-news-media.html
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