News media manipulates what becomes an issue and what doesn't both by what and how it covers ideas and events and by what it omits from its coverage. Who decides what is news and why? We'll continue with our Radio Netherlands series on propaganda by looking at what gets left out of the news and hear from an alternative media reporter on how self-censorship has crept into that milieu.
Also, a recent forum with Professor Noam Chomsky that presents the issue of terrorism from a perspective almost never presented in establishment media outlets.