Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What Bias? - AP Headline Tells Readers DOJ Lawyers Approved Torture; Article Content Differs

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Well if you can't win the propaganda war by twisting the content of something you don't like, you can at least plant a presumptive seed in the heads of those who will only see a story's headline.

That seems to be the logic behind an unbylined Associated Press report this morning. Its headline ("Report: No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture") would tend cause anyone not reading further to believe that what was under review is indisputably considered "torture."

But that is not the case, and the underlying article itself proves it.

What follows is a graphic example of spin-by-(misleading)-headline:

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