Misinformation can be carried out on two fronts,suppresso veri, suggestio falsi (Suppress the Truth,Suggest the Falsehood)Goebbels led by Hitler was a past master on both the fronts at the same time,Jews were the cause for Reich’s ills(Suggestio falsi),the Third Reich are resettling Jews (supresso veri) and he has been successful .
Misinformation is resorted to by insecure rulers or out of necessity to hide the real intentions as with Bush stating Iraq had WMD.
A refined form of misinformation is labeled as Diplomatic language.
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Misinformation has come to stay and media is also no exception.
Iran’s state-controlled media blamed the U.S. and Israel. And President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first public remarks about the incident Thursday, said the murder method was “Zionist,” according to Bloomberg News. U.S. officials dismissed these accusations, calling them “absurd.” In stark contrast to Iran’s media depicting Ali-Mohammadi as a loyalist, anonymous government sources and colleagues said he was an outspoken critic of the regime and suggested Tehran was actually behind the killing. Although a physicist, Ali-Mohammadi was not known to be involved in Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.
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