Mainstream media lying by omission or commission is a major reality throughout the World. Lying by omission is far, far worse than lying by commission because at least the latter admits the possibility of public discussion and public exposure of the malfeasance.
Accurate reportage is crucial for Rational Risk Management (RRM) that successively involves (a) accurate data, (b) scientific analysis (which involves the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed implementation of systemic change to minimize harm when adverse events inevitably occur.
Unfortunately Rational Risk Management (that, for example, has made passenger aviation so safe) is typically perverted locally, nationally and internationally by (a) lying by omission and commission, censorship, self-censorship, intimidation, whistle-blower punishment, commodification of truth, (b) anti-science spin that involves the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position, and (c) reaction by blame and shame (with war the most egregious example of this), noting that blame and shame has the counterproductive effect of inhibiting the reportage that is vital for Rational Risk Management.
Humanity is faced with major life-threatening problems that must be addressed by Rational Risk Management. According to Professor John Holdren in , then President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, the biggest general scientific organization in the World and publisher of the top scientific journal Science) , 3 major problems facing humanity are Nuclear Weapons, Poverty and man-made Global Warming (of which all have the potential to kill billions of people). [1].
Mainstream media lying endangers Humanity by blocking acquisition of accurate data that is crucial for Rational Risk Management.
The Mainstream Media Lying" site is dedicated to exposing Mainstream media (MSM) lying by omission and commission and is an alphabetically-ordered compendium of the cogent views on this matter by numerous truth-telling writers, many of them very famous: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ .
[1]. Professor John Holdren quoted in "AAAS President John P. Holdren urges swift action to build a sustainable future", AAAS News, 16 February 2007:http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2007/0216am_holdren_address.shtml .
A damning example of Mainstream Media Lying by Omission is comprehensive failure of US Government-beholden Western Mainstream Media to report compelling scientific evidence for US Government involvement in the 9/11 atrocity (see “Experts: US did 9/11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ).Thus, for example, Dr Paul Craig Roberts (2019): "Every informed person is aware that elements of the US government were involved either in the perpetration of the 9/11 attacks or in a coverup of the attacks " and The Australian Citizens Party (2019): "A research team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering department has concluded that fire did not cause the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 (WTC 7) on 11 September 2001[as asserted by the US Government] ...The only thing that could have brought this structure down in the manner observed on 9/11 is the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building … With few exceptions, the mainstream media ignored what should have been major news”; and a detailed engineering Final Report into “A structural reevaluation of the collapse of World Trade Center 7” from the Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks) (2020): "It is our conclusion based upon these findings that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of all columns in the building". ]