MSM’s Conspiracy of Silence on DV
This letter to the editor gives readers a window on how domestic violence in this country is reported (Chicago Tribune, 4/23/09). It's from Jeffery Leving, Chairman of the Illinois Council on Responsible Fatherhood. Apparently he was interviewed by a reporter for the Tribune for an article on supervised child visitation centers. While expressing his pleasure at having been interviewed, Leving goes on to say that the article "deleted the two fundamental points that I made."
The first of those was that "domestic violence is not gender specific."
To be clear, the reporter, Megan Twohey, interviewed Leving and he told her an important fact about DV. That important fact did not make it into the article.
So, when reading DV articles in the future, be aware that the reporter and editor may actually know the facts. Indeed, interviewees may have told them the facts about DV in so many words. But the almost total boycott by the MSM of any mention of domestic violence done by women to men remains in place. In other words, some journalists may be ignorant of basic facts, but ignorance doesn't explain the absence of those facts from press accounts of DV.
Even when they know the truth, they refuse to admit it. That's not ignorance, that's a conspiracy of silence.
Don't believe me? Here's the article Leving was complaining about (Chicago Tribune, 4/20/09). It includes two incidents of severe domestic violence including parental kidnapping. Both perpetrators were men.
If you've never read Noam Chomsky and Edward Hermann's Manufacturing Consent, now might be a good time to do so. The MSM's almost total disregard of the basic facts of DV are a classic example of what the book is about.
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