All goods points Drawscore. Only problem is that you failed to point out the fact that these are reporting practices as used by Fox News!
Yes, and probably all the liberal as well as conservative news programs too - but my first line was just as factually true as this one is.
And yes, that second line is open to interpretation too. I've encountered numerous examples of everything you said myself.
Here's an even more famous example that I am quoting from a wiki (although some people dispute the story's authenticity, I have heard it many times and have even heard it mentioned in conversation):
In 1950, Senator Claude Pepper, a three-term incumbent Senator of Florida, ran for re-election and faced off against Congressman George Smathers in the Democratic primary. Smathers launched an infamous smear campaign against Pepper that today sounds more like a fake political ad from Saturday Night Live.
Smathers outed Pepper as "a known extrovert," his sister as a "thespian," and his brother as a "practicing homo sapien." He accused Pepper of practicing "nepotism" with his sister-in-law and of "matriculating" with young women in college. Worst of all, he "practiced celibacy" before marriage.
Naturally, voters were horrified, and Pepper lost by over 67,000 votes. (To be fair, Smathers denied the story until the end of his Senate career in 1971, perhaps fearing that his own homo sapien past would come back to haunt him.)
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