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| − | * Virtually everyone automatically impugns their opponents, while depicting their own motives as pure of heart. | + | * Virtually everyone <!-- split-infinitive --> 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> |
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Revision as of 17:45, April 9, 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]