It's the old chestnut of whether an omission is actually a lie, and I believe it is a lie if what's omitted creates false impressions.
The Islamic Republic News Agency, another official news agency, also reported on the exercise, but omitted the word hypothetical, giving the impression that a real drone had been downed.
Indeed many media organizations omitted the word "claim," giving the impression that the plane's ostensibly amazing fuel performance is an independently attested fact.
For much of its reception-history, Utopia has been treated as if it consisted exclusively of Book 2, and this impression was supported by some printed versions which omitted the first book.
British lists often omitted the soldier's rank, creating an impression of equality in death.
Thus, not surprisingly, the causal analysis of sympathy as a mechanism of vivacity-transferal from the impression of the self to the ideas of the sentiments of others is entirely omitted from the moral Enquiry.
In this way, VKI gathered in its electronic data set detailed and summary statements such as the ISPs' subjective impressions (satisfaction), but mostly VKI gathered more objective observations on activities the GPs performed or omitted.
An article on June 28 about the continued weakness of some European banks omitted a relevant detail about the French bank BNP Paribas, and in so doing may have left the impression that the bank was undercapitalized.
"The CIA consistently omitted the significant amount of relevant intelligence obtained from [other] sources," it charges, "leaving the false impression that the CIA was acquiring unique information from the use of the techniques".
(Johnson's name is often omitted from Presidential polls, although a recent Rasmussen survey found that sixteen per cent of voters had a favorable impression of Johnson, while twenty per cent had an unfavorable opinion).
