There are many reasons for Media manipulation. I mentioned one in an older blog post-Good Television. Watching the Marshall McLuhan documentary I posted on Tuesday would be helpful to understand this aspect of media manipulation.
But there are bold outright lies like the one I posted last week that was used against Romney.
Here are a few more.
You can not trust the media. And no, I am not saying you can trust the new media either. Do not watch just one kind of media, watch many and evaluate them.