Posted on Jun 1, 2017

Can the truth be worded in such a way as to make people believe the exact opposite of what actually happened?

SSG David Fetty

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While in Op/Intel school in the early 70's, we were having a class on misinformation and how it could be used to direct the thinking of people to believe the exact opposite of what really happened. The example given? I'll have to make it the first comment since it's kinda long.

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SSG David Fetty

Posted 7 y ago

A race was arranged between a car from the US and a car from the Soviet Union. When the day arrived and the race ran, as expected, the US car won, and the Soviet car finished second. Only those two cars ran the race. In those days, the media was more believable and less biased, so the US paper reported "US car wins in race with the Soviet Union". Which was the truth, no need for analysis, no need for them to spin it or tell us what to think.

Pravda, the official news agency of the Soviet Union also reported on the race, using only the truth. Their headlines? "Soviet car finishes second in big race, US car finishes next to last". Nothing untrue about it, but with the way it was worded it caused the impression that the US was having huge problems with their cars.

Does anyone else think that we are being told on an almost daily basis that we are finishing "next to last" in almost everything we do today?

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Col Joseph Lenertz

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LOL. Don't take any curbs or speed bumps with your roadster there.

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SSG David Fetty

7 y

Col Joseph Lenertz - I think that's a concept vehicle for the new High Speed Urban Assault Vehicle (Acronym pronounced Hoo Ah) Pretty sure it was designed by the same person as the designer of the EM-50 from Stripes :D

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