All the News That’s Fit to Suppress

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Front Page Magazine:

On September 21 Gallup released a poll revealed that 60 percent of Americans don’t trust the media to deliver the news “fully, accurately, and fairly.”

Yet the most corruptive aspect of the Fourth Estate is only alluded to in the above assessment. The most grievous sin committed by the media is one of omission: stories that don’t get reported at all, or are held back to a later date to minimize their impact. The last months leading up to the 2012 election reveals a stunning magnitude of calculated omission, aided and abetted by the Obama administration, all of which centered around one imperative: suppressing a number of stories that would hurt the president’s chances for re-election. Here are several stories that were underplayed, or kept from the American public completely, until after November 6.

We begin with the economy. Last Thursday, the Labor Department released figures showing that real average hourly earnings dropped again in October for the third month in a row. They are now down 2 percent since the president took office. The Census Bureau was equally duplicitous, “revising” their September report that showed the number of poor Americans dropping by 96,000–with post-election report showing that the number of poor Americans increased by a whopping 712,000 in 2011.