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To achieve the latter consistency, it first needs to be determined what is or is not "significant," in that significance makes news while insignificance does not. It is thus that "facts" not leading up to significance are seldom reported, while it does occur that significance, whether real or imagined, can be emphasized or demolished by higher editorial authority. The whole of this equates to a behind-the-scenes filtration system regarding how and what "news" is to be managed before it is reported as such. * Ruth Hagy Brod had warned me not to talk about parapsychology in general. "They are interested," she said, "in YOU as a personality." I had no intention of leaving the matter of "consistency" to random speculation or imagination of this or that media person, or to their senior editors. After all, media in general already HAD a consistency regarding "psychics" and parapsychological researchers in general -- which was to consistently trash them. So we decided that I should prepare a brief hand-out sheet that could be given to this or that media person. My little hand-out sheet ran to two pages, because I decided to include the eleven criteria I had established regarding my own interests and behavior. These have already been presented in chapter20, and so there is no need here to reiterate them. However, before listing those criteria, I provided a statement establishing: ● that I was NOT "a psychic" ● that I never claimed to be one ● that I did not give readings, advice, or suggestions