Word: misinformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Racism in the crude sense does not necessarily motivate people to misinform pollsters, Hickman says. Rather, some respondents succumb to a misguided urge to give answers they think will please the questioner. Whatever the reason, pollsters in black-white contests should learn to take the discrepancy into account -- at least until such racial match-ups cease to be novelties...
...their quest for grades, I doubt that any would stoop so low as to steal a wallet. It wouldn't even help their grades. Mr. Smith chose only to portray every college major in its worst stereotypical light. Attitudes such as these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith engaged in blatant sexism. He wrote that "a wily person [no gender here] can use these stereotypes to his advantages," by being able to entice the students at Wellesley and Lesley. Are these advantages available only to men, or are women...
...Public Opinion (1922), his best book, he anticipated a problem that has grown worse through the years: How can democracy survive in a mass society, when its citizens are no longer able to grasp all the complexities of government and when sophisticated propaganda techniques are available to misinform them? Although he was often wrong and self-contradictory, Lippmann remains one of the sanest and most reliable guides through the theories and practices...
...journalistic fervor wider in the days when press lords such as Hearst and Colonel McCormick helped create candidates, lauded them to the skies and unmercifully derided their opponents. But the American electorate got quite skilled at rejecting their advice. Poor press lords! They could thunder, and they could misinform, but they could not persuade. As one of Lord Beaverbrook's editors once remarked, "No cause is really lost until we support it." The relative lack of advocacy in the political journalism of 1980 makes the coverage sound remarkably homogeneous. That may deny readers some guidance in making up their...