News media is hiding the truth
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Last month, this was online: "If Gallup Chairman and CEO Jim Clifton had written this column during a Republican or conservative administration, his words would have been picked up by the Associated Press and The New York Times, and would have echoed acro
allup Poll and Clifton have been trying to point out that Americans polled believe that US unemployment could be as high as 30 per cent, and the percentage of fully-employed US adults has been dropping steadily for years and now stands at only 44 per cent.
Gallup and Clifton have experience and credibility and they are presenting facts and data, so why the noticeable silence from mainstream news media, including this paper?
A lesson for Thais: One of the best ways to destroy an economy is through the use of propaganda, as the former Soviet Union proved not so long ago.
A reminder for Christians: A sin of omission is a failure to do something one can and ought to do (like not hide the truth through silence).
Personally, when I see news media react like that on such a vital issue, then I conclude that all “news” is just propaganda, every bit of it, everywhere.
Guy Baker
Bangkok
