TODAY’’s TUESDAY MESSAGE:
GOD TALKS AND ACTS TODAY
NEW Category: Lies, Omissions, and Deceptions
Lies, Omissions, and Deceptions #334
© March 14, 2006 Joe Burkey, OK to forward intact
also Adar 14, 5766 original calendar

When I enrolled at Ohio State University to earn a B.A. degree in advertising art, I already was a full-time artist for the Columbus Dispatch. I worked from 5:00pm to midnight with a dinner break of ½ hour, but they let me go to a restaurant which took 1 hour. I worked six hours and was paid for eight hours as differential pay for working late on the news of the day. It was a great way to earn full pay while going to college.

We used special paints made for newspaper reproduction to look good when printed in the newspaper. There were about twenty artists on day shift and six of us on nights. Most of them painted clothing, furniture, and other items which would be shown in advertisements. The reason for all this work is that photographs, even good ones, do not look good when printed in newspapers.

You have seen photos in newspapers in which the person looked much heavier or older or tired, etc than they really are or maybe they were not even recognizable. News photos, however, must be used to show factual news. No paintings; just photos for news. Paints are used on these news photos to make the person or product look better. Well, usually.

I was good at photo touch-up and designing new company logos and product emblems; vivid imagination, I guess. One evening the editor came into the art department, handed me a 5x7 photo of the Russian foreign minister (second in command) who was in the US for a meeting. This was during the peak of the cold war in 1961.

Most assignments for me were left with the art department manager on day shift. Occasionally an advertising account rep or the sports editor would see me personally, but never before The editor. Without any greeting to me, he said: “Make him look bad.” I asked how bad and he replied, “Like the devil.”

When I was done, the Russian (photo) had wicked eyes below ugly eyebrows, a protruding forehead with course hair, and a sharp nose with sunken cheeks beside it. I gave his skin some unhealthy looking tones and, overall, he looked like the devil without horns (that’s an image people have, but Satan has no horns).

The whole point to this message is that you have little or no understanding of how much the news deliberately influences your thinking and attempts to control you. In 1961, journalism professors were teaching students that their job as reporters was not to report facts, but to present a story. The story, of course, would be whatever their editor told them and the editor follows the orders of the owner.

BIBLE VERSES ABOUT THIS (Amplified Bible):
Isaiah 59:14 “…truth has fallen [in the city’s forum]…”
Zechariah 8:16 “…speak every man the truth…”

WEBSITE LINKS ABOUT THIS:
Treason by our news? #302
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/302e.htm
News kept from us #303
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/303e.htm
Where was the news? #304
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/304e.htm
Why no news about Ahmad? #311
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/311e.htm
Operation kept secret, no news #314
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/314e.htm
Mass incest kept quiet #317
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/317e.htm
Complainers in news lied #320
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/320e.htm
Truth at last, but not major news #327
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/327e.htm
Reporter tells other reporters lied #330
http://www.abbasway.org/messages/330e.htm
PLUS ALL OF THE MIRACLE HEALINGS ON THE WEBSITE WHICH WOULD MAKE SPECTACULAR NEWS STORIES, BUT NO - THEY WOULD SUPPORT CHRISTIANITY

TODAY’s QUOTE OR SAYING:
(An old, but still apropos news story)
A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After carefully planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his van. He was, however, captured only two blocks away when he ran out of gas.

When interviewed later by a news reporter who asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: "Monsieur, I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh." (You thought I lacked De Gaulle to send you a story like this. HA! Now you know I was an artist; they have a strange sense of humor.)

Please forward this to everyone.

Thanks, Joe (Joe Burkey, McCullough 4-4-1)

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E-mail Joe at joe@abbasway.org