Word: misdirection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only sold 268,737 light vehicles. Three years ago, that would have been its take for the July 4th "cash back" weekend. Ford (F) moved 96,044 units, off 48% from the same month last year. As usual, the Ford PR department did what it could to misdirect and dissemble. Early in its statement about last month's sales, Ford pressed the case for how fabulous it new products are. The most important announcement the company thought it was making was that Ford will introduce the new Fusion model during American Idol. It tells Ford's shareholders...
Cheney has hidden behind the rhetoric of fear and patriotism from the moment he stepped into office; he, like too many politicians, uses words not to elucidate, but to obscure and misdirect. The really mind-numbing thing, though, is that we let him get away with it—again, and again, and again. This is not so much his failure as it is ours. It’s time that we take responsibility, and demand that he behave in a manner worthy of his office...
...full of misleading statements—for instance, he writes that “...particles of sound are called phonons,” even though sound is almost never thought of as a particle—which, while correct on some level, are more likely to bewilder or misdirect the reader...
Those who brief, cajole, artfully misdirect or just plain herd the press on behalf of big-time politicians obey a few crucial rules of the road to keep their bosses (and themselves) out of trouble. Rule 1: Stay behind the scenes; the media adviser should never become the story. Rule 2: Don't be nasty; you may disagree with reporters, you may tussle with them, but browbeating eventually backfires. Rule 3: Under no circumstances attack the media as a whole. They are jealous of their prerogatives, and buy ink by the barrel. Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's director of communications...
Beyond rebuilding the areas that were directly hit by the terrorists, America is in the process of restructuring its intelligence and security agencies to better prevent future tragedy. At the same time, it is crucial that we do not misdirect our anger at racial or ethnic groups. A year ago, President Bush and others rightly and immediately emphasized that Arab-Americans must not be targeted in the aftermath of the attacks. Yet there were still isolated incidents of violence—and more pervasive but less visible, a widespread sense of distrust of anyone who looked like the stereotypical...