MSM and the Delphi Technique

I wonder, as do many of my friends, why the MSM, and specifically the New York Times and the Washington Post, give so much weight to the happenings at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. After all, panties over the head and touching the Koran pales in comparison to beheading, fingernail pulling, shoulder dislocating, and bottom of the feet beating.

In fact, the MSM has elevated Gitmo to a level where Amnesty International can say with a straight face its today's Gulag.

Are what we seeing here the use of the Delphi Technique on a mass scale. http://www.premier1.net/~barkonwd/school/DELPHI.HTM

In Educating for the New World Order by Bev Eakman, the reader finds reference upon reference for the need to preserve the illusion that there is "Lay, or community, participation in the decision ­making process), while in fact lay citizens are being squeezed out."

So has the MSM created an illusion that we (the community) have decided that Gitmo is today's Gulag and what happened at Abu Ghraib was, in fact, the vilest of torture?

{In the Delphi Technique} attendees are broken up into smaller groups ­ usually of seven or eight people ­ each group with a facilitator. Discussion ensues wherein the participants are encouraged to discuss preset issues,... Usually participants are encouraged to put on paper their ideas and disagreements, these to be later compiled by others. Herein lies a very large problem. Who compiles what is written on the sheets of paper, note cards, etc.? When you ask the participants, you usually get, "Well, they compiled the results." Who is "they?" "Well, those running the meeting." Oh­h! The next question is ­ How do you know that what you wrote on your sheet of paper was incorporated into the final outcome? The answer you usually get is, "Well, you know, I've wondered about that, because what I wrote doesn't seem to be reflected here. I guess my viewpoint was in the minority."

In this scenario the "facilitator" is the New York Times and the "discussion group" is their latest poll. I may not think that Gitmo is as bad as the Times paints it, but after front page story after story and quote after quote condemning it, I may think my opinion is in the minority.