The more propaganda we hear, the less we know ...
After rating hundreds of claims in the 2010 election -- from TV ads, debates, interviews and mailings -- we're giving an overall Truth-O-Meter rating to the campaign.We rate it Barely True.
In a majority of claims checked this fall by PolitiFact and our eight state partners, we found a grain of truth, but it was exaggerated, twisted or distorted. (We define Barely True as a statement containing some element of truth, but it "ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.")
Lately, a growing number of claims haven't even risen to the level of Barely True. In the past two weeks, we've seen a surge of statements so wrong that they've earned False and Pants on Fire ratings.
For more, see We Rate the 2010 Campaign Barely True by , October 27, 2010 at PolitiFact.
1 comment:
Fortunately there are watchers of all this. the reality is that the advertising is so uninformative that many people simply tune it out as spin and rhetoric. This makes the funds expended marginally less valuable as time goes on. The result of an onslaught of false or misleading information is, ironically, to inform the public ever less.
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