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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.

* Accusers impugning 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.

*Interruption - interrupting an interviewee with a new question to cut the interviewee off from completely the answer to the previous question. This can make someone look bad if the first part of their answer demands an explanation or elaboration

*Interruption - interrupting an interviewee with a new question to cut the interviewee off from completely answering the previous question to throw the interviewee off-track. This can make someone look bad if the first part of their answer demands an explanation or elaboration.

*[[Bias]]ed [[photo]]s - wherein a media outlet will use images that denigrate a political figure. Most common on media [[website]]s, but also in some [[newspaper]]s. The photos are usually intended to make the target appeal either incompetent or sinister

*[[Bias]]ed [[photo]]s - wherein a media outlet will use images that denigrate a political figure. Most common on media [[website]]s, but also in some [[newspaper]]s. The photos are usually intended to make the target appeal either incompetent or sinister.

*Name calling in the crude form of [[argumentum ad hominem]].

*Name calling in the crude form of [[argumentum ad hominem]].

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==See also==

==See also==