When speaking of punishing criminals, it's standard on the networks to discuss strictly what that will do for them, while avoiding consideration of what the educational spectacle of punishment tells potential future criminals, Experts' presumption evidently being that criminals are utterly ineducable — except by the same Experts.
(DIO 4.2 [1994] ‡9 §E [p.79].)

Birth control & abortion are always spoken of as individual rights, never as as ameliorating the larger society's problems, e.g., poverty, illiteracy, or drugs. Birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger's noble purpose (to wipe out poverty) isn't even mentioned anymore. (See DIO 4.3 [1994] ‡13 §E [pp.116-117].)

Why does the court system routinely release nuts on their promise to take med? I.e., why trust a crazy guy to take-his-medication? — when his reliability is, after all, that of a loon….
Near the end of 2005, we hear a revealing inversion of this alibi: ever-pumped-up steroid-era ex-pitcher Jeff Reardon tries a failed jewelry-store hold-up — and the Medium in-perfect-shrinkoanalytic-lockstep nationally alibis him by saying he did it because he was ON his med.
(In 2006, P.Kennedy pulled the same ploy, again with media assistance.)
Sure — isn't that the first thing you and I think of when we're dopey from oversleep or whatever: hey, let's go rob a store! And make it a jewelry store so it'll be obvious that gain wasn't the motive ….

Doctoring the News
— Censorial Castle, Circular Moat:
The Medium keeps calling MLK “Dr. King”, though his PhD thesis was riddled with plagiarism. (Unattributed passages taken from about 10 scholars. All evidently as white as many of his women. Racism works in mysterious ways.) Side-by-side word-comparisons at Wash Post 1990/11/10. (DIO 1.2 [1991] n.154 [p.132].) Memory-holed almost immediately, so virtually no youngster is aware of these facts. Pure Orwell.
[The truth of King's plagiarism was kept fromt the public for over a year. Coincidentally, it was during this censorial period, that Arizona was being slandered for being the one state of the US that had not yet agreed to honor MLKing Day. It was after Arizona came on board that King's plagiarism was made public. Question:
Did Arizona have a right to know of this academic crime before deciding?
Has the press ever even discussed such questions?
Or why it won't discuss such questions?
Or discuss why it won't even ask why it won't discuss….]

Why don't the media ever ask a very simple, basic question? If the legal profession cares so about capital punishment, why don't lawyers (hardly a needy bunch!) volunteer to defend indigent accused murderers? Instead, the system forces all of us taxpayers to fund the truth-jugglers who try as hard as they can to get killers out again, back on the-street, so long as the-street is in the dumb-taxpayer's middle-class neighborhood, and NOT near the rich neighborhoods of the pseudo-forgiving sweet defense-lawyers, shrinks, & judges that are very handsomely milking this disastrous and otherwise profitless ongoing piece of pure theatre.
[By theatre, we mean: [a] the criminals are lying; and [b] the defense-lawyers, judges, & shrinks are pretending, both in their ploys AND in their let-'em-live-elsewhere fake-sympathy.]
Summing up the incongruity: isn't it comforting to note that, if you're murdered, your taxes will fund the artful defense of your murderer? Unless he's rich enough to afford his own handsome, Gerry-Spencesque-lovable mout'piece — in which case he'll probably get off completely.

Note that TV'snews-magazines always treat plastic-surgery-beautification of vulnerable teenage women much more promotionally than not — hardly (if) ever warning of, e.g., the fact that soft-tissue surgery will customarily require return-bouts. (And that implants are like marriage: divorce is more expense than insertion.)
[Even TV 'snews very-occasional negative remarks can be seen (like tobacco's messages on the dangers of buying its product) as helping the plastic-surgeon lobby by creating a situation in which anyone suing for a botched job cannot claim she wasn't sorta warned. (After being almost conspiratorially fashist-press-excited-desperate — to the point of udder incaution.)]
And since the “Free Press” is incorruptible by private payoffs, we know it's just coincidence that there's enormously more money being generated by carving up kids than by discouraging mutilative vanity.

At the end of every calendar year, “Publishers Clearing House” gives away millions of dollars to (a very, very few among) those who send back their win-ten-$million ad-mailings. Meanwhile, the Medium systematically fails to explain the oddly mechanical once-a-year factor in such sweet Generosity. It's merely a mail-list enterprise's scheme for updating its sucker lists, in particular: gauging advancing gullibility & fiscal desperation among the aging, making it among the most expensive sucker-list marketers can buy.

When covering “insanity” cases of murder (and-or rape), the Medium invariably decrees that The Key Question is: did the creep “know-right-from-wrong”?
No. The KEY question is: how did we get shepherded into fixating on such junk?
Who cares whether a nut-murderer knows-right-from-wrong — if he's a proven intentional killer, get rid of him.
Whether he knew killing was wrong is irrelevant except for those bent on vengeance. (Ironic! — since the bleating-hearts who mouthe shrinkoanalytic alibis for killers claim to abhor vengeance.
[Contradiction explored more fully at DIO 4.2 [1994] ‡9 §F2 [p.79]. E.g., “Actually, if the sanity issue has any relevance to murder trials, it is:
we should be even tougher on nut-murderers than on rational murderers (most of whom are less sure to repeat). And, in today's courts, the insanity-defense is simply a hook to hang jury-sympathy on. If jurors fall in love with defendants (e.g., the Menendez & BobIt cases), then courtroom rent-a-shrinks will provide the mumbo-jumbo justification for anointing the belovéd with an Innocent verdict.”]

TV 'snews' conservative talking-heads can't wait to invite atheists onto the air to trash them for opposing school prayer. But, during natural catastrophes (wiping out hundreds of thousands of people, including lots of sinless children and foetuses), TV 'snews plays up “miracles” regarding the handful of survivors, while never asking how god could permit such mass slaughter — and never inviting atheists to join the customary priest&guru-crammed panels ritualistically convened on air to explain-away such Acts-of-God.

I've seen hundreds of corporate-owned (thus globalization-happy) news-media will-they-or-won't-they stories on nations' citizens voting on getting into the EU. But there seems to be minimal press consideration given to a slightly relevant point: how can a nation get out of the EU?

Please, Br'er EU, Pleeeease Don't Throw Me Outta the Club:
Hmmm. A 2006/11 press story reports that any EU nation that legalizes the death penalty can be expelled from the EU. (OK, OK, who believes the EU would really expel any nation it can make an euro from?) But the idea suggests that the Confederacy might have held back on shelling Sumter, and instead tried a soft approach. (Inspired by the South's own Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox & The Briar Patch.) But, wait a minute: if buying-and-selling human beings hadn't caused the southern states' expulsion! — is there ANYthing that could do it? What could be more immoral, more outrageous to the 1861 USA than slavery? (Would Confederate nude beaches have done the trick…? Or just triggered a quicker, more civilian invasion?)
BUT — how about a REALLY serious offense, one so unspeakably against nature that outraged 1861 Yankee rulers would have demanded Congress instantly throw the perverse states at least out of the Union (if outer space couldn't be arranged):

THE WOMEN'S VOTE