Word: factualism
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Peter Ferrara's article on the United Farmworkers in Monday's Crimson contains a number of important factual misrepresentations and misleading statements which should be corrected...
...truth is that Chavez has won most of this support by mere factual misrepresentation. He and his organizers have misrepresented to the public the working and living conditions of the farmworkers, their wages, the role of the growers and the degree of Chavez support among farmworkers. These misrepresentations have been more successful the farther Chavez's boycott organizers got from the fields...
...October 9 Crimson contains an article on British politics, by Paul Rowe, which suffers from a number of major factual errors...
...addition, the general narrative through which departments are introduced to the reader should be checked with a representative of the department under discussion in order to eliminate factual inaccuracies. For example, the final three paragraphs in this year's discussion of the Philosophy Department have been lifted verbatim from last year's Guide. The first two of those paragraphs were inaccurate last year, and the passage of time has only compounded that inaccuracy. A Philosophy Department representative could have pointed out that tutorials in philosophy now deal entirely with historical texts and that the Department now has two survey courses...
...committee's factual presentation of evidence cited 19 occasions on which Nixon had made false or misleading statements "as part of a deliberate, contrived, continued deception of the American people" on the Watergate scandal. In addition to Nixon's own falsehoods, the committee reported, the cover-up was aided "by false statements and testimony by the President's close subordinates, which the President condoned, encouraged, and in some instances, directed, coached and personally helped to fabricate...