How False Narrative Works

Over the past couple of decades, the Republicans have benefited enormously from their ability to create and disseminate false narratives through the Right's large, well-financed media apparatus.

Over the past couple of decades, the Republicans have benefited enormously from their ability to create and disseminate false narratives through the Right's large, well-financed media apparatus.

With mainstream journalists unwilling to challenge the false narratives - and thus put their careers at risk - American voters often go to the polls believing things that are almost the opposite of the truth. Full Story »

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Rory O'Connor
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by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

The authors' stated premise is that "Over the past couple of decades, the Republicans have benefited enormously from their ability to create and disseminate false narratives through the RightÂ’s large, well-financed media apparatus." As a result, they contend, "American voters often go to the polls believing things that are almost the opposite of the truth." THey then detail, in an excerpt from their book Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, one such case study from Election 2000. The piece is marred in some respects by obvious bias and the use of negative, loaded language.

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