Word: falsehood
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...freedom to skew our stories--needn't you see our faces? Needn't you look into our eyes as we tell you why Bush's tax plan isn't going to work or why we're ready to single-handedly reclaim the Alaskan refuge? Are you checking for falsehood, listening for trembling in our voice...
...system and puts it into private accounts can avoid the obligation to pay for current retirees, which would lower the returns. Bush's repeated comparison of the returns on Social Security and safe government, which surfaced again in the first presidential debate, therefore approaches the level of a simple falsehood...
...perceived as hostile to gays by the people at The New York Times who were gay," says Alex S. Jones, co-author of The Trust, a history of the family that owns The New York Times. "He sees this as an absolute falsehood...
...Truth can't be manufactured," he continues. "Maybe the appearance of truth. There's another word for the appearance of truth. It's called falsehood, and falsehood can be very easily manufactured...
...food handling practices themselves, not the method by which they were recorded and published, which caused the chain's losses in sales and stock price. Some might find this distinction tenuous, but the First Amendment places strict requirements on libel suits that challenge a story's truth or falsehood. To tie the information presented in a story to the method in which the story was written, in the words of the appeals court, would represent an "end-run" around existing doctrines of press freedoms...