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Discrediting attack can include:

'''Discrediting attack''' can include:

* Virtually everyone automatically impugns their opponents, while depicting their own motives as pure of heart.

* Virtually everyone automatically impugns their opponents, while depicting their own motives as pure of heart.

* [[Journalist]]s and other communicators often portray themselves as merely asking questions, reporting what others say or describing events, when everyone knows a verbal mugging is actually taking place.<ref>[http://www.transparencynow.com/news/disguises.htm How discrediting attacks are disguised] </ref>

* [[Journalist]]s and other communicators often portray themselves as merely asking questions, reporting what others say or describing events, when everyone knows a verbal mugging is actually taking place.<ref>[http://www.transparencynow.com/news/disguises.htm How discrediting attacks are disguised]</ref>

*[[Gotcha journalism]] - whereby interviewees are asked impossible or overly demanding questions

*[[Gotcha journalism]] - whereby interviewees are asked impossible or overly demanding questions

*[[Memory]] exploitation - where an interviewee can be confronted with a past statement which contradicts whatever claim he is currently making. Inability to remember the context of the past statement can lead to hesitation, and so make the interviewee look ignorant or incompetent

*[[Memory]] exploitation - where an interviewee can be confronted with a past statement which contradicts whatever claim he is currently making. Inability to remember the context of the past statement can lead to hesitation, and so make the interviewee look ignorant or incompetent

*[[Media]]

*[[Media]]

*[[Media bias]]

*[[Media bias]]

*[[Propaganda#Types_of_propaganda|Types of propaganda]]

*[[Propaganda#Types of propaganda|Types of propaganda]]

==Notes==

==Notes==

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[[category:journalism]]

[[Category:Journalism]]

[[Category:Media]]

[[Category:Media]]

[[Category:Liberal Traits]]

[[Category:Liberal Traits]]

[[Category:Sociology]]

[[Category:Sociology]]

[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]

[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]