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Originally Posted by esoteric1
is it possible that reporting partial truths is another way of lying? Can you also lie by acts of omission?
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You mean like the B52 that supposedly smacked into the side of the empire state building, in "Loose Change"?
Or how about the quotes they attributed to Newsweek, that were really just from a Blog?
Then there are the quotes taken out of context from Wally Miller, that make it appear that there were no remains or pieces of the jetliner at the crash site in Pennsylvania. When in fact if you read the article those quotes were taken from that's not what he says.
Hallowed Ground (washingtonpost.com)
Take a moment and think about the motivation of someone who doesn't have a paper paying his expenses or his paychecks, don't you think that there motivations might also be fame and that they also might want to put food on the table? T
he difference is that when you have a steady paycheck coming in, you don't want to blow it by being caught in a lie. You don't need to rely on as much sensationalism to sell your story either.