Nov 26, 2012 4:44:01 PM cite

Why are women not equally important in this society?

by checkmatehillier

Jan 23, 2012 1:18:50 PM cite

I guess you can find information about anything these days - somewhere - the problem is in what way the mainstream media report things. Usually information is emotionalized and deprived of causes and effects to prevent people from being able and asking questions. Mainstreammedia information is almost always presented in such a way that the reader gets an uncomfortable feeling of fear and a comfortable feeling of pleasure when comparing his own situation to that he just heard about. But the most important thing is focus - the focus which information is relevant. Since all mainstream media meanwhile are owned by those we are very eager to keep the present system of exploitation (of anything - human and natural ressources alike - they call economy) up, we are all talked into being well-behaved servants and supporters of this system. The purpose of information has shifted from information to manipulation - so - most of the real interesting stuff today is NOT reported.

by evolution

Sep 11, 2006 10:36:25 PM cite

Wayne Pacelle, the director of the Humane Society of the USA, just saved 100,000 wild and domestic horses from being slaughtered in the USA and exported to Europe to be eaten. Wild horses from the national parks and former pets were being butchered here and eaten abroad. Now a new law has banned the horse slaughter, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Pacelle. This is a big victory for a more humane society and did anyone hear about it?

by danzisima

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva: There are many unreported stories. There are many important stories about corruption and that many countries and political systems are utterly corrupt. But most important unpublished and unreported story by our mass media is the story that human beings are unique creatures and they have to learn how to use their own strengths. This is an unreported story because a lot of political and other powers are afraid of these human strengths. That’s why in mass media there are so many dejected, horrific and awful stories. When a snake hypnotises a rabbit, the rabbit is awestruck and then it is easier for the snake to eat it in this petrified state. I think there are many scandalous stories, but some of these scandalous stories are unveiled. For instance, the film of the famous American director Brian Levant. Many stories are very important but most important story, it is a positive story, is the story that despite disastrous general and environmental situation in the world the most important thing is the state of our moral principles, the level of our morality. Our moral principles are in bad state because there are a lot of people who are not interested in using this energy, this potential and most important human energy. Everything else, all other stories provoke more or less fear, dread and petrifaction.

by Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Abbas Beydoun: I do not know exactly the most important unreported story, but sometimes I think it is Viagra, because increasing the sexual ability is as important as bread. Renewal of fundamental needs is important.

by Abbas Beydoun

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Alvaro Restrepo:

by Alvaro Restrepo

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Andries Botha: Anonymous, I don’t know why you’ve remained anonymous. You should be proud of the question. The most unreported important story is that of our imagination and our creativity. The – our human imagination, and the significance of each and every person. Their thoughts, their imagination, their dreams. We are told only that certain people’s stories, or dreams, or visions, or actions are important. But the great unreported story is that all of our dreams are important. All of them. The ways in which we can apply our creative sensibilities to deal with the world. The catalyst of course for all of this is compassion and love. Human compassion and love. I do really and sincerely believe that of all the things that we valorize, this is the one that we don’t talk enough about, the one we don’t identify enough.

by Andries Botha

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

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by Angaangaq Lyberth

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Anthony Arnove: This is a very important question. There are so many candidates for the most important unreported story in the world today, but the story that I would nominate is the issue of what genuinely is happening in Iraq today. Because the story is being reported everyday in the New York Times, in the Washington Post, on CNN and papers around the world, on radio, on television and Web sites around the world. The story of what’s happening in Iraq is being reported, but what’s unreported in that story is so important. And of course, what’s unreported tells us so much about what’s really happening in Iraq today, what’s unreported is the real reasons that the United States went into Iraq, what’s unreported is the genuine human consequences, the horrific human consequences of this war for the people of Iraq. What’s unreported is the fact that people are resisting occupation, not engaging in acts of random terrorism and sectarian violence that’s explained by ethnic or sectarian or religious divisions, but are engaging in resistance to occupation, and within that framework of course also having their society torn apart in ways that is creating civil conflict, that is creating religious and ethnic and sectarian conflict, a conflict which is shaped and distorted, overwhelmingly determined by an occupation that is destroying the country of Iraq. And really, right now, we may in fact be seeing the destruction of Iraq, the breakup of the country into three countries that can be ultimately better controlled by the arrogant imperial powers that went into Iraq hoping to set up a stable pliant regime there, to control the resources of that region and to use that to extend American hegemony globally, the US hegemony globally. But, having failed in that immediate aim, now switching to different tactics, Plan B being to create in classic colonial divide and rule strategy a Shia-Kurdish block that would create a less stable, but still a pliant state for the United States and then if that project will fail, as it seems to be failing, potentially to breakup the country to gain the greater control and domination over a weakened and divided Iraq.

by Anthony Arnove

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Anuradha Koirala: Discrimination against women on trial such as [inaudible]. [inaudible] in Napal is where girls when they get their mensurations are kept like animals in a small hut and not allowed to enter or see anybody till the seventh day. They are like untouchables and then we have another discrimination for single woman. Single women are considered, after their husbands die, they are not allowed to do next marriage. They are taken off all their cultural traditional values such as wearing bindis on the face, like this one which I have my head the red one, the bangles on your hand and they are all discriminated. They are not allowed to inherit the property of their husband, the father-in-law [inaudible]. So these are the few things which is -- this is the reason why girls are also trafficked to India.

by Anuradha Koirala

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Anuradha Mittal: Well, for me, the today’s most unreported story is that as we gather around this table in Berlin, the empire is dismantling. It has not been reported that U.S. had lost the Iraq war the day it decided to go into Iraq, and that is why I say the empire is dismantling as we gather around today and that’s where the hope lies. So, we see a lot of plunder, destruction, conflict in the news. What we do not hear about is the hope, hope that’s coming from the knowledge that the system of this empire building where U.S. takes the lead today, it is dismantling; it is on its way out.

by Anuradha Mittal

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Ashok Gangadean: For me it’s clear, that the most important story of our time and the lineal story from the global perceptive, if we step back and listen to the great teachings of the ages to the humanity, has been in a long and painful shift from an egocentric stage of being a human to a more mature integral holistic form of consciousness. In which we mature as whole human beings and recognize our interconnectivity and interconnections and the fabric of reality with each other and with all nature and with sacred earth. And that story has reached a peak point as we enter the 21st century. That we're the time in which our survival turns on sustainability, turns on maturing now. We have no choice. Because the old pattern of consciousness, the ego-based consciousness, has more than run its course and is on a bankrupt implosion of all our systems it seems. And all of our great prophecies have pointed to this moment as a tipping point. And this deep cultural shift is the headline of our times and yet, it’s not being manifest and reported, even though it’s bubbling up throughout of our cultures. And events such as this of Dropping Knowledge, here in Berlin, is one example of this transformation of this lead story that is not getting recognition in the media. So, I would say the awakening, the mass shift and maturation of the human species to become fully human and our survival is at stake is the most important story. And yet is not being brought into the front, forefront by our media.

by Ashok Gangadean

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Audrey Kitagawa: The most important unreported story is a story of the human heart. The human heart to love, to have hope, to give inspiration, and to share love. There is no question that we are inundated daily by stories of crisis, disaster, and what we could say generally a lot of disturbing bad news. And I think we need to hear more stories of how people find their will and their courage to overcome the challenges in ways that can help our brothers and sisters to live inspired lives. Inspired lives that ultimately find their wellspring in a power higher and greater than ourselves and to know that this power is always there. It is a power that nurtures us, guides us, and surrounds us in this infinite sea of love. And it is our connection to this higher power that has the quality of pure unconditional love that in turn fills our hearts with love, that we in turn share with others. This is the unreported story of love in action in our daily lives that truly gives meaning and value to life itself.

by Audrey Kitagawa

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Avi Primor: Well, I would begin with before. The annihilation of populations just because they have an other religion, in an other region or are from an other race and the world does interest for them because they do not have any resources, no petroleum, no gold, no wealthy. Furthermore those who destroy these populations are parts of a global power. Today it is part of the Arabian world, of the Islamic world who fights against Christs and blacks in Sudan. The world does not move forward - it is really astonishing: This means that we have not learnt anyting from the past. We just interest for things that concern us directly. But even if something does not seem to concern us, it actually concerns us because the power that is able to cause such a massacre and to kill other people just because of an other race or religion - this power will not stop after this victory and its acchievements, it will want to go on. And sometime it will concern everyone of us directly too. So these story man does not talk about, but are such important for humanity will obtain all of us.

by Avi Primor

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Benjamin Fahrer: Well, there are so many under reported stories. It’s hard to pick. I haven’t had a television since 1996. I have a computer, I have the radio and I hear many stories Amy Goodman from Democracy Now, bless this woman for speaking and reporting on the stories that need to be reported about and all the independent journalists who are reporting on stories that the media, mainstream media does not cover. I don’t know if there is any story that is totally under reported. There are stories that definitely are little snippets within the mass media that deserve a lot more recognition. Climate change is a big one that many, many people are now waking up to and is becoming more of a reported story. Some of the truth about corporations, about our involvement in South America, genetic engineering is also a very under reported story. We’re starting again just like climate change starting to hear more and more about it. But many people still don’t know about the extreme consequences that are happening due to this grand experiment we’re doing on the planet. So many under reported stories, it’s hard to choose. It’s hard to choose.

by Benjamin Fahrer

Sep 9, 2006 3:10:00 PM cite

Benson Venegas: The most unreported story is the stories of hope, happiness, and success to real challenges, rather than the stories of disasters and fear. From the side of the audience, people tend to lose their pity, and tend to don't listen to stories any more. People cannot stand to listen about more suffering. They block theirselves. So they're passive. And they do not mobilize to solve their problems, or solve the problems that is happening in other places that would affect them. Tending to feel, in the reality, more pity for what is happening in the virtual life a character, of a TV soap opera, who's acting in a TV, or what is happening with something that is nothing have to do with a real challenge. We need to recover ability to listen again. We need to [take] our ears. Open our ears to listen. Open our minds. And be aware. And be objective to analyze real problems and real challenges, and move to take actions to solve these problems. The media need to be a promoter of this change. A change where reported stories should be the challenges and the values around hope, happiness, and success of the challenges we taking today.

by Benson Venegas