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The mainstream media [MM], to which both newspapers, magazines, radio- and TV-programs must be counted, are increasingly pressed by internet-bloggers. These, on the contrary, may be focusing on certain issues. Both seem not to be giving a balanced news reporting which you at least from the MM could expect. The blame on other countries for their lacking freedom of the press must be balanced upon the recognition that we are in the Western World living in an increasingly censured space.

Now, in the Autumn of 2011, there are some items that are worthwhile considering to find out if your frequently consulted MM has serious blind spots which generally makes their reporting unreliable. Selecting five prominent topics, I recommend to investigate if your preferred MM reported on the mere existence of the following themes:

1.Israel’s desperate preparations (2011). Since 1967, Israel has broken all International conventions and colonized the West Bank (further ethnic cleansing not commented here). Under the pressure of Palestine’s UN application, this process has been greatly accelerated in 2011. It is ignored that Palestine was recognized already in 1947 by the UN – within considerably larger borders than those from 1967.

2.Faking the polls (Autumn 2011). USA is a single-party country with two rightist wings, controlled by corporations and billionaires. George 2^nd Bush cheated himself twice to the American presidency and now already the straw-polls (mostly won by Dr. Ron Paul by the GOP) were falsely quoted. Most European MM have not heard about him, although he is the only answer to a population living in increasing poverty under a fascist war-thriving government, controlled by banks, billionaires and a foreign state. But perhaps MM’s ignorance is the chance for Dr. Paul to survive – they have an ugly tradition to kill political opponents in the USA.

3.Libyan war (March-October 2011). The ‘Arab Spring’ was a surprise to everybody, the isolate reaction to Libya was it too. On March 4, 2011, NATO, assuming to protect the people, achieved an UN-resolution for a ‘no-fly-zone’ over Libya. The misinterpreting of its text is striking, but not discussed in standardised Western propaganda media. China and Russia wonders how the West from this resolution adopts the right to enter unilateral warfare; may they be wiser, not to spare the World a veto in the future! Even before the unequal war was decided, Libya’s oil was split between foreign companies.

4.Iranian plot (expected since 2006). How can an oral insult suffice for a war? President Ahmadinejad’s wrongly translated quotation of Ayatollah Khomeini (2005: “wiped out of the map”) is taken as an argument. Seen with Palestinian eyes, the Jew’s holocaust cannot be a just argument for further ethnical cleansing. The racist state’s possession of nuclear weapons has not made the World safer. There is no sign of any Iranian non-peaceful use of nuclear material, which is also cited as an argument. I still believe that the Israelis will abuse one of their German donated Dolphin submarines for a false-flag attack on their allies (e.g. an American warship in the Persian Gulf). It may distract the current International attention, which has finally been raised on Palestine’s behalf.

5.Pre-judiciary assassination (Not just since Sept. 30, 2011). With the (unconfirmed) killing of Al Awlaki, some Americans woke up. The murder was attempted by drone attack on the car where the victim, an American citizen, perhaps was driving in Yemen with companions. Al Awlaki was, however, never sentenced, not even indicted; it is not even certain if there is evidence for a criminal behaviour. Personally, I do not care for this American citizen; in the meantime, thousands of persons have been killed by such unmanned aerial vehicles, remotely controlled from Nevada or Tel Aviv. It is characteristical for the declining moral in the Third Millennium that extrajudicial murder has now become widely accepted.

German trojan (October 2011). At least in Central Europe, this grave occurrence was intensely reported even in the MM. In Germany, Switzerland and Austria, private computers were infested with a trojan, with which it is possible to control communications (Skype), make screenshots, search the hard-disk and even load compromising files anew on the computer. The trojan was communicating with an American server and had, according to the authorities, been (ab)used some 100 times without juridical control. So it is possible now that Big Brother is not just watching, he may also be planting false evidence on your laptop.

And the Ghetto of Gaza? It is still isolated and out-hungered, an extended warcrime.

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You may provide excellency to your search, differentiating the following possibilities to the ‘covering intensity’ of each item:

Please notice that there is no demand for editorial conclusions. In this ‘Truth-Scale,’ your preferred MM may receive from 0 points (deafening effect of lies and propaganda) to 50 points (reliable news source, as subscribers may expect and the many journalists should be paid for to deliver). But why make all the search work for yourself? Just copy this page and ask your favourite MM to fill out the table for themselves, merely with the date given where the criteria were fulfilled (you can easily check for that)

If your preferred MM failed to give any notice of these selected cases, they are unreliable sources for provision of news. Indeed, a very interesting problem is, why they failed to report it, but these are circumstances you cannot change. Worse, you are set up with a more difficult problem – how to find the real news in a censured society?

I shall only whisper the first stage in a complex reaction: Acknowledge the problem!

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