2009/8/9 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Failing to tell the *whole* truth by selective omissions is not the same as a lie, which would be to make claims that are knowingly false. If the 1985 and 1995 editions of a biographical dictionary treat a person's Communist Party association differently that doesn't change the fact that both of those editions were in fact published You can compare the two editions, and note any differences.
A "lie of omission" is often considered to be a lie, as the name suggests.
Sure, *some* people will tend to do this sort of thing, but that is not the same as accusing all biographies there of being full of lies.
Nobody made any such accusation.