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* Journalists 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> | * Journalists 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> | ||
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Revision as of 14:02, March 7, 2008
- Virtually everyone automatically impugns their opponents, while depicting their own motives as pure of heart.
- Journalists 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.[1]