Word: misinformation
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...Methodist Council of Bishops, meeting 40-strong near Los Angeles last week, discovered a familiar mote in the eye of their Roman Catholic brethren. "The Roman Catholic Church," they declared in a committee report adopted by the council, "should cease to misinform the American people by affirmations of loyalty to democratic ideals when deliberately denying religious freedom wherever it has power...
Gravely aware that such small things as an "ex" omitted or a cipher added can misinform millions, TIME researchers will continue putting black marks against themselves in "The Black Book"-TIME will keep on printing your corrections in Letters-and TIME editors, writers, management will do all they can to make the filter ever finer. With your help and with constant vigilance here, someday we may be able to whittle TIME'S boners down to near zero...
...Evil," Robertson told the gathering: "The power of the press is a pretty significant power at this particular time, and it can shape our lives to a large extent. I'm afraid that the press is going to use that power as it has in the past to misinform the people on vital issues...
Detroit itself is ill-informed on the subject, because two of its newspapers deliberately misinform their subscribers and the third paper (Hearst) while making an honest attempt at being fair succeeds only in making itself a little silly by ineptness...
Primo de Rivera, bullnecked, florid, paunchy, inflexible, replied by sending a circular note of reprimand to Opposition news paper editors: "The Government shall defend its firm and irrevocable resolve, already taken, and it shall not permit any opposition designed to distract, alienate or misinform public opinion, which in the majority has accepted this solution as the best offered in the exercise of the dictatorship under the Government's exclusive responsibility to country and King...