Canadians need to know how major media outlets deliberately misinform them.
One simply cannot make decisions for oneself with predictable outcomes with bad information. So it matters a great deal when you are being lied to, in this case by the Toronto Star.
A Buddhist lecturer I knew, once explained to his class, that there are three ways of lying. My misinformation, omission, and another kind I never can remember.
But intention matters in all, and all are attempts to deceive. The Toronto Star, like the CBC and BBC and most mass media, and especially government-media complexes like the CBC and Euronews, practice all of them, with a preference for omission.
Lets look at some coverage of the Muslim woman who went on a jihad in Toronto last week against the unbeliever at an area mall.
Even Global News did a rational and informative report on what took place and most importantly, why:
Now read the Toronto Star report, remembering that all information was equally available to all news services at the time these were released.
Some of it is below in screen captures. But the article continues to sort of say what happened while avoiding any real conclusive indication as to motive.
For example:
When asked to identify herself for the record, she instead made reference in Arabic to “the leader of the believers,” according to the court’s translator.
This could mean anything at all from the point of view of one of our detractors. We all know what it means, but it is not a genuine data point in the game set of what the hell is going on here, generally speaking. And of course, that was the point.
