‘Every misleading sentence is technically true’ – A Guide To Media Lies

A very good resource by Gwern here…

An excerpt:

So I went back to excerpt the article—and while rereading, realized that in every case I thought might be a lie, rereading showed it had been so carefully worded as to be technically correct and to simply be misleading.

After this, I was in awe of the rare artistry of the piece, which elevated it from merely misleading to a wonderful example of “bounded distrust” (cf. “no evidence”) in journalism and how selective quotation and mere juxtaposition can lead astray the insufficiently skeptical reader.