JoG, I believe that we agree on media manipulation.
Btw, I have been a fan of Chomsky for a few years now.
I don't feel I need to look it up on google.
So naive?
Is it naive to believe that you are being
lied to by the media
rather than them just playing it down?
Maybe these guys are human.
I live among them in the UK and I spend weeks or months at a time in Hungary.
I have time to talk to the guys sitting huddled with their sleeping bags in Keleti station (first port of call in EU for refugees), as I slowly walk by on my crutches.
I spent a month or two in Cologne years back and I'm familiar with the station and the cathedral area, where 'it' all happened.
Let me get this straight.....
So, are the media playing down the 'dark side' of immigrants/refugees' behaviour because those controlling the media do or don't (?) want the US public opinion to move towards tolerating (let alone welcoming) the refugees, because naturally, the refugees are likely to rape (for instance), bomb places, or call God by a funny name?
JoG, I more than most, agree with what might me termed 'conspiracy theories' that you post.
This theory as to the reasons behind the media (supposedly) under reporting, to me, just sounds like paranoia;
being
aware that they are bad guys and want to come to your country is different than being
afraid that they are bad guys and want to come to your country.....but equally as misguided, I think.
Maybe they are humans caught up in someone else's war, some are surgeons, some are cleaners, some are learning to walk because of shrapnel wounds, some are learning to walk because they are kids. They have been force-fed adverts from McD's to Pepsi, Elvis to Madonna, and want to 'climb aboard the raft' that doesn't just have a little 'bit of bread' but ranks in the top 10 wealthiest?
If Trump had a new game-show, "Rapist or Refugee", imagine the viewing figures!
The studio audience could vote with their key pads, and the viewers could text in.

Angela Merkel was unbelievably stupid to invite refugees to Germany the way she did.....but sadly Trump seems to me to prefer 'older German methods' when it comes to people in numbers...