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"Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."
Philip K. Dick, from How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Will all U.S. presidents in this century be spin doctors? Have they always been?
The techniques of spin include:
Selective quotation
Selective use of facts
Non-denial denial
Phrasing in a way that assumes unproven truths
Euphemisms to disguise or promote one's agenda
Philip K. Dick, from How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Will all U.S. presidents in this century be spin doctors? Have they always been?
The techniques of spin include:
Selective quotation
Selective use of facts
Non-denial denial
Phrasing in a way that assumes unproven truths
Euphemisms to disguise or promote one's agenda
