Call for media to stop visual deceptions and staged "refugee crisis" photos and coverage

NEW YORK - April 9, 2016 - PRLog -- Based on brand new research including a survey of major media outlets, Hasta la Vista EUROPE! author Col. Walter T. Richmond is calling for the media to be truthful with their viewers and to stop making it look like the refugees in the EU are all pitiful sad families with young children fleeing war.

According to Richmond, "the old-fashioned-controlled-media is covering up a massive, cataclysmic travesty - the so-called 'refugee crisis' in Europe. The fairytale is that millions of innocent peace-loving families are fleeing war and death, and they can't wait to return to their homes once things settle down. Nothing could be further from the truth."

Backed by recent United Nations and German government statistics, Richmond quoted the The Jewish Press which reported that "The BBC's website of 200 images is also dishonest in its refugee presentation - providing a 53% focus on children, 36 percent men, and 10 percent women, whereas the United Nations Refugee Agency revealed that 75 percent of 'refugees' were young men."

"It's just the tip of a massive orchestrated visual deception," said Richmond adding that, "we know officially most (75%+) of the 'refugees' are young fighting-age males, many who abandoned their homes in search of better economic opportunities. So you would expect most of the media's visual images to reflect these facts. Yet the media insists on cherry-picking and possibly even staging photos of young families with little kids. That's irresponsible and deceptive. As a consumer of news, who relies on the major media for fair and balanced coverage, I am outraged. In fact, all Americans should be outraged."

Richmond's current research reveals that the major media continue to use visually skewed material. He is challenging the major media outlets to be more responsible, and to be visually balanced, so that what they choose to show their viewers more accurately reflects the truth.

Col. Walter T. Richmond details many examples of media deception in connection with the European refugee crisis in his book Hasta la vista Europe. For more information, visit http://www.asterhousepress.com/