Word: falsehoods
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...this series The Crimson has perfected the journalistic style of asserting a dramatic falsehood and the next day, once the falsehood has set the tone of an entire article, perhaps unapologetically nothing a correction...
Suspicious Stats. Maybe it's related to declining math scores, but these days the favored ploy is to taint by numbers. If a politician rattles off more than three statistics about his opponent's record, assume that at least one of those figures is a flat-out falsehood, yanked completely out of context and massaged by friendly computers. The more precise the number, the higher the likelihood of prevarication. Senator Joe McCarthy would never have set off the 1950s witch-hunts if he had merely claimed, "There are, I don't know, maybe 100, maybe 200 communists in the State...
...interview yesterday, Gates said he would "rather be attacked" than "feel compromised by silence in the face of blatant falsehood...
...editorial's treatment of Peruvian politics is just as insulting and parochial. The author's description of the return of democracy in 1980 is a blatant falsehood: "the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people the befuddled Belaunde." In fact, Belaunde was elected by all Peruvians in a free and democratic election called by a Constitutional Assembly (to which representatives were also freely elected) in 1979 with the supervision of international observers from the United Nations and the Organization of American States...
...people believed the President last summer when he pronounced Clarence Thomas the most qualified man for the Supreme Court and asserted that racial considerations had nothing to do with his nomination. In an even more blatant falsehood, Bush said he had forbidden all high-level exchanges with China after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre -- even as he secretly sent his top foreign policy aide to meet with Beijing's leaders...