Deception by omission is a classic political and diplomatic ruse. As a tactic it can buy time for political and diplomatic maneuver. However, mendacity by omission and mendacity by selective omission—particularly mendacity by commission and omission, which favors a particular political party in an election year—is savage falsehood that damages free societies. The damage is particularly acute when practiced by the so-called mainstream and self-declared media of record.
For the next six months his weekly column will examine and deplore examples of media and government lying. His first column—UNDER ERASURE—deals with two blatant examples of mendacity by commission.
The first was committed by former CBS Nightly News reader and once-upon-a-time big league media big-shot Cute Katie Couric in her recent faux-cumentary “Under the Gun.” She now works for Yahoo News.
The second is a brazen—and stupid—example of bureaucratic government lying committed by the Obama Administration’s State Department: the “erasure” of James Rosen’s December 2, 2013 Q&A with State Department spokeswoman Jen Pskai. Rosen’s queries regarding the start date of the Administration’s nuclear arms talks with Iran were missing in action—vanished. By the way, Pskai now contends Rosen is victimizing her by complaining about the erasure. Knee-jerk victimhood and an attack on a Fox News reporter insure MSNBC and NPR will rally to her support.
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