HEADLINES AND COPY THAT CONCEALS RATHER THAN REVEALS THE TRUTH OF EVENTS
The middle East is a HOT topic. Major media and wire services have a pronounced
viewpoint which they impose on readers and viewers while pretending to deliver facts and news . Common methods are—tampering with meaning of
words, shifting context or simple exclusion. These two headlines appeared in the Examiner June 29. “Militants
kill U.S. soldier held captive since April: report” authored by (AP) news service. and: “Militant on Saudi list or 26 most wanted surrenders”
also (AP)
What impression do these headlines convey? Both headlines use the word
“militants” An emotive
word denoting a member serving in a legitimate army. In the first
headline the militants “kill’ a U.S. soldier,
It’s not nice but isn’t that what militant’s are paid to do, kill the other guys? A militant is a proper soldier in a proper army. Soldiers
kill, terrorists murder. An appropriate headline invoking a clearer message tied to the truth should be, “Cowardly
terrorist brutally murders kidnapped
young U. S.
soldier.” Fewer words but the message does not alibi murder and exposes the evil of terrorists .
Video footage of a 20 year old blindfolded U.S.
soldier, purportedly Keith Maupin, had been released by terrorists. He is sitting on the ground in front of a hole into which he was presumably pushed after he was shot.
In the second headline “militant” surrendering. This man is not what the headline implies. He is not
a soldier but a murdering terrorist. Neither
the headline nor the body of the copy explain his crime. A reader might think his crime is as innocuous as parading around a shopping mall frightening women and children with his zipper undone. As
the crime happened on May 13, 2003, a responsible journalist would remind readers. This
terrorist with fellow terrorists exploded three bombs in compounds in Riyadh. Thirty –five people including nine Americans were murdered, 200 wounded. Crown Prince Abdullah said :”All terrorists are criminals, they are butchers.”
A member of the military fights
other soldiers,. this terrorist targeted unarmed civilians. Was he frightened because the military might shoot back or was
it just more effective to have a
public bloodbath? An accurate headline
should read, “Terrorist surrenders; after
bombs murder 35
and wound 200”
By seeming to report news
but using carefully construed language
international media can quietly
and consciously embed alibis and falsehood in the minds of views and readers.
We can remain easily
manipulated patsies or exert ourselves and probe intellectually into every report posing as news. With
political correctness barring the way
banning clear thought and untainted discussion : it can be done but it may
be difficult. Both these headlines and stories were supplied by CP; they both reveal CP’s feeling about the USA
and the war in Iraq.
ARBITRATORS AND TRIBUNALS:UNELECTED, UNTERMINATABLE; THE LIBERAL FRONTIER
Few people recognize the power of these people who bury logic and common sense in the pursuit o their
own liberal agenda. The following news story is an example of arbitration and bureaucratic inchoateness
at work.(In this issue ‘work’ is an effort reviled by bureaucracy ).
An editorial ran in a local paper called the Community Press—this is the writwr’s response to that editorial,
Regarding your illuminating editorial, “Ministry
of Unnatural Resources.” I think it was a mistake to fire six employees from the
Ministry of Natural Resources for exchanging gross pornos on company time. It
was inevitable that a left wing arbitrator would rule against the employer.
The employer being us, the abused taxpayers,
the arbitrator was Ken Petryshen.. Even though Mr. Petryshen admitted there was a major abuse of company time and uncounted disgusting porno e-mails were swapped containing
content that ’included “…degrading and violent sexual activity, bestiality as well as sexually explicit
images…”’ he ignored his own facts and substituted idiotic politically correct reasons for
the rehiring the employees who were expensively represented by their union’s lawyers..
In total 99 workers were found to have exchanged
“a large volume “of
inappropriate material: 66 employees suffered some form of gentle reproofs. As the entire 99 had ample time on
their hands to engage in daily porno creation and exchanges instead of doing the work of the Ministry, it simply means an identical amount of REAL work can be performed
without them. The appropriate action for
Mr. Ramsay, the Ontario Minister of Natural Resources to take, is to lay off the entire 99. Taxpayers would be saved a ton of dollars, the Ministry would be cleansed of useless clutter and it would be a lesson to other bureaucratic laggards and misfits.
The six
employees have been lolling about for three years, the arbitrators probably decided to give them back pay.
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CONSIDERED DISCRIMINATION IN THE UK
Byrl King had run an employment agency for 27 years; in that time, uncounted individuals found respectable employment because of her efforts. She placed an ad for warehouse men at 8 Euros an hour(about $15.00
Can.) In the
ad she asked for “hard-working and reliable people” She was forced to cancel her ad because it was discrimatory.
It discriminated against lazy people. It is the reflection of the attitude
of the general public. They have
been witness to too many incidents were a shoddy attitude malfeasance or turpitude were rewarded
