Prager: "You don't get lied to by the media, you get filtered news."

Well, yes, that's probably their favorite way to lie to you, by not telling you a big chunk of the news. Want an example? The Clinton Administration decided they could juggle the numbers of unemployed. They quit counting anyone who was still looking for a job after 18 months, later 2 years. The administration shifted its unemployment count from the inner cities, where unemployment was very high, to the suburbs, where it was relatively quite low. They phased in the new numbers over several months so that the unemployment rate would appear to decline. And lazy newspeople just went along with it. So sure, it's the media going along with democrats and presenting only the favorable side of most issues.

But Prager then added, "When the media quote a statistic like 'four million Americans are out of work,' I believe that statistic."

Well, maybe you should reconsider that, then, Prager. They told us, as you mentioned, that thirty thousand women a year DIE of anorexia, when the true number is "perhaps as many as five" given by the Department of Health. Not five thousand, just ... five. Or the other statistic they love to quote, that "women are still earning only seventy cents for every dollar that men earn." Which is only true when read with very narrow definitions. In all other senses, women are doing better than men. Deliberate misconception.

Further, the Old Stream Media will tell you all sorts of b.s., from "Bill Clinton has created 12 million jobs" (one of his campaign themes for 1996) to "Over a hundred murders in the football stadium in the aftermath of Katrina." Sometimes it's just neglect and laziness, but those are still false numbers and if you trust them, you're being fooled.

I'm sure any sentient American who has been reading the papers for more than six months can come up with dozens more examples.