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To: RonF
The (original title) was copied from their site.

The summary (shortened!0 title was chosen specifically to answer Koppel's questions (last night!) on Night Line about how easy it was to feed a lie to the media, WHICH this PR manager DID DO by describing in detail his cover stories, backup stories, and preset plans and discussions about how he was 9deliberately!) manipulating the media to present HIS SIDE of the issue.

My title, since you chose to split hairs, specifically says "How to Lie" to CBS, NOT that "HE lied" to CBS or to 60 Minutes.

And, indeed, this is a specific case story about "how to lie" to the media.
7 posted on 09/10/2004 11:13:55 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

So the title you gave was not, in fact, the title of the web posting. It is customary here on FR to use the web page title as a posting title. If the page itself is a repost of something else (as this one is), then people do use the original posting's title, but you didn't do that; you made up a title that was misleading, as it states something happened that didn't.

I say it's misleading because using cover stories, backup stories, and other media manipulation so as to get your side of a story out is not lying, unless they contain statements that are not true. It's certainly true that by couching truthful statements properly, people who listen uncritically might draw erroneous conclusions. But that's not telling lies, as people with critical faculties can tell.

The title you made up includes "How to Lie to 60 Minutes". But no one, in fact, did lie to 60 Minutes.

And even if you think that spin doctoring is a lie, then even in that light your title was a lie, since at the most favorable interepretation of it, your title was "spin doctoring" the content of the posting.

Am I splitting hairs? If so, distinguishing lies from truth is worth it.


8 posted on 09/10/2004 11:55:23 AM PDT by RonF
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
My title, since you chose to split hairs, specifically says "How to Lie" to CBS, NOT that "HE lied" to CBS or to 60 Minutes.

And, indeed, this is a specific case story about "how to lie" to the media.

Tell me where the PR manager ever advocated or described telling a lie to 60 Minutes, as opposed to presenting truthful information that gave his viewpoint.

9 posted on 09/10/2004 11:57:05 AM PDT by RonF
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