Some times, a person is not given all the facts. For a specific reason, or two, something is sort of ‘left out’ so that the decision would be skewed.
For example, suppose you were thinking of hiring a particular person. You expect to get all the facts on the applicants; their education, their past working history, anything about them that you ‘need to know’. But the information is missing a key feature because the form they filled out doesn’t have a space for it.
So you hire someone who is in a wheelchair, or who to leave work every day at a particular time to get a particular lift to and from work, or someone who is enormously fat.
None of these people are suitable because the office is up a flight of stairs, and very often people have to work late.
Take that thought and turn on the News.
Listen carefully.
Are you being given all the facts to enable you to make a decision?
I’ve mentioned a particular way the BBC presents the News.
Firstly, they’ve cut down their news broadcasts to 5 minutes every hour, 2 minutes every half hour, and filled the empty space with about three minutes of promotions for other programs, with leaves 50 minutes for blah blah.
By Blah Blah I mean vacuous time fillers about nothing you need or care to know. (Check their schedule and see what I mean).
To facilitate the Blah Blah they condense the news so that you don’t really know what is happening and can come to the wrong decision.
Some years ago, at 7 am the BBC spoke of 5 missiles fired in Gaza from Israel. This was repeated a 7:30, at 8:00, at 8:30. At 9 am the BBC mentioned that 500 missiles had been fired into Israel, then dropped the story.
The purpose of this broadcast was to make one anti-Israel.
Those who know how the BBC is anti-Israel would turn to another news service or the Internet to get the facts. But over time, many of the news stations cut down on facts and focus on Blah Blah.
This is because there is some reason why the public is NOT to Know what is happening in the world.
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When you are not supplied with the relevant fact, data and information, even the most intelligent person can misunderstand, make a bad decision, do the wrong thing. That bing said I like BBC America news reports.
That is the point. In the 1970s everyone used to gather around the Shortwave to hear the BBC, and it was aired in Jamaica and other ex-colonies twice a day for 1 hour. And it was the News in depth.
The BBC would begin by listing the various major stories it would cover, then go through each of the major stories and then a few minor stories then end by summing up the major stories.
You could listen, take notes and go to class and in your Social Studies Class stand up and give a report on a news event based solely on the BBC report. It was in depth.
It did not assume you knew where Sudan was, it would give you a location, a touch of history, go into the current situation, explain as it could how the current situation occurred so that people wouldn't be led into misconception.
For example, the Crimea situation. Crimea was part of Russia, part of the Soviet Union, only given to Ukraine by Khruschev, much to the annoyance of those who lived there. They don't want to be part of the Ukraine.
As people don't know their history they can not understand what is going on and blame Russia.