Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed an overall information agency, provided with funds by Congress, advised by the Departments of State, War and Navy but not answerable to them; a single overall director. No special pleader would be allowed to distract the agency or distort its facts. The agency would report directly to the President...
There are a few exceptions: ". . . documentaries, which have . . . only very limited opportunities to distort life; frank melodramas, which have nothing to do with life . . . and the occasional pictures, one or two a year at most, which defiantly photograph some recognizable fragment of our common experience and generally lose a good deal of money...
...John Albert, Chief of OWI's Intelligence and Analysis Division in New York, tells us that all during the war the Nazi radio "quoted" TIME more often than any other magazine to give believability to its lies-usually by taking sentences out of their context to distort their meaning. (Once a Nazi station that pretended to be broadcasting from inside the U.S. gave itself away by quoting a TIME report four weeks old a few minutes before that same quote came over the air from Berlin-"thus making it clear that the same issue had reached both stations...
...Times, trying to damn the U.S. out of its own mouth, quoted first that old press baiter, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes: "When editors and publishers do not publish information or opinions which are extremely important for the interests of society as a whole, when editors distort events to serve special interests, and when they fabricate canards to blacken or eliminate unfavorable political candidates, then I the press deserves the severest criticism and condemnation...
...member-companies of M.P.P.D.A. consult the Hays Office on every step in the making of a picture, from the purchase of a story idea to exhibition. If critics com plain that such prohibitions result in a childishly unrealistic portrayal of American life, cinemen reply that political censors would probably distort the picture even more...