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Category: Truth It’s OK to lie to stir up the public.“We routinely wrote scare stories about the hazards of chemicals, employing words like ‘cancer,’ and ‘birth defects’ to splash a little cold water in reporters’ faces. . . . Our press reports were more or less true . . . . Few handouts, however, can be completely honest, and ours were no exception . . . . We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.” - Jim Sibbison
Lying is OK if it’s effective.“[W]e have to offer up scary scenarios [about global warming and destruction of the environment], make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts one might have . . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” - Stephen Schneider , October 1989.
Lying is the best defense.“I’d say, ‘Gee, I just don’t remember what happened back then,’ and they won’t be able to indict me for perjury and that, maybe that’s the principal thing that I’ve learned in four years . . . . I just intend to rely on that failure of memory.” - Charles Ruff , 1997.
I can be honest and lie.“I think I can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.†- Dan Rather , May 15, 2001.
We empowered abortion with lies.“We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million. - Bernard Nathanson
News reports, broadcasts or commentaries can be irresponsible.“You have no ‘right’ to fair treatment, no ‘right’ to be quoted accurately or in context or even quoted at all in news reports, broadcasts or commentaries.” - Richard Harwood
Don’t report anything that refutes global warming.“Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.” - Ross Gelbspan , July 2000.
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