Tag Archives: deceit

Big Black Marker

The Memory Hole has a
scary example of document
redaction going too far
. The blacked-out text in this case was a quote from
a Supreme Court decision which denounced the abuse of “domestic security”
powers.

The Memory Hole is a neat site whose purpose is “to preserve
and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not
widely known”.

AstroTurf Activism

Cut-and-Paste
Propaganda Infiltrates Opinion Pages

By Paul Farhi

Reader, beware! Some of America’s newspapers have become
unwitting conduits for campaign propaganda. Thanks to some nifty Internet technology, the campaigns of President Bush and John F. Kerry are making it easy for their supporters to pass off the campaigns’ talking points as just another concerned citizen’s opinion. Pro-Bush or pro-Kerry letters bearing identical language are flooding letters-to-the-editor columns.

Not Newsworthy

Catholic Light has illuminated another example of media bias. In this case, it’s
not a matter of what is newsworthy and why, but what apparently wasn’t
newsworthy.

Media
bias

Karzai lauds U.S. war on terror – a top story on washtimes.com but unreported on
the front page of the Washington Post (online edition, cnn.com, foxnews.com and
abcnews.com.

Bias in the Media? Nahhh….

Hear that one about Kerry winning by 7 points from the LA Times? Yeah, so did I.

Now have a look at what at what Mr.
Drudge
has to say. He’s not alone,
either.

[No survey is perfectly representative of the entire population, but this is
unacceptable. – Funky Dung]