They ignore them because they are part of the propaganda mouthpiece. We thought propaganda only happened in those "other" countries, but unfortunately, it is here, hiding in plain sight. Recently, CNN admitted it was all about ratings and not about the ethics classes in journalism school.

Here is from Hitler's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. '“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Here are a few quotes from We The People, Free as Slaves, Classified, pp. 63-64.

Ben H. Bagdikian in The Media Monopoly states: “The power to control information is a major lever in the control of society. Giving citizens a choice in ideas and information is as important as giving them a choice in politics. If a nation has narrowly controlled information, it will soon have narrowly controlled politics.”

In 1953, John Swinton, editor of the New York Times stated, (at a meeting of the Independent Press): “There is no such thing, at this date of world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and if any of you would be so foolish as to write honest opinions [you] would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours had elapsed my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert, to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon; and to sell his country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it…and what folly is this—toasting an ‘independent press’? We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes!”

David Rockefeller, in June, 1991, in a speech to the Bilderbergers in Germany stated: “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications, whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years….”

Not only is the media controlled, education is controlled too.

A document which defines this is Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, Research Technical Manual, TM-SW7905.1.

“This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power, and without the consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodology for economic conquest – it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of person and the public… (p. 3)

“In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the lower class elements of the society must be brought under control, i.e., must be house-broken, trained and assigned a yoke, and long term social duties from a very early age, before they have the opportunity to question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower class family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents and the establishment of government operated day care centers for the occupationally orphaned children.

“The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintaining some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class.” (p. 8)