Lies we live by: defeating double-talk and deception in advertising, politics, and the media
"Lies we Live by explains how diversion, half truths, and misleading statistics are used to manipulate vs. Carl Housman, a distinguished academic who nevertheless writes like a normal person, applies his lively and engaging wit to showing you how to decode: lying with words; lying with numbers...
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Lies we Live by explains how diversion, half truths, and misleading statistics are used to manipulate vs. Carl Housman, a distinguished academic who nevertheless writes like a normal person, applies his lively and engaging wit to showing you how to decode: lying with words; lying with numbers and lying with images."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | 229 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0415922801 |
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| adam_text | LIES WE
LIVE BY
DEFEATING DOUBLE-TALK AND
DECEPTION IN ADVERTISING,
POLITICS, AND THE MEDIA
CARL HAUSMAN
ROUTLEDGE
NEW YORK LONDON
CONTENTS!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
INTRODUCTION 1
1 TERM WARFARE: HOW TO LIE WITH WORDS 7
2 DAMN THE STATISTICS: HOW TO LIE WITH NUMBERS 19
3 SEEING IS BELIEVING? DON T YOU BELIEVE IT!
HOW TO LIE WITH IMAGES 31
4 I M FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND
I M HERE TO CONFUSE YOU 45
5 I LIE, THEREFORE I AM: THE EXISTENTIALLY
AMBIGUOUS IMAGE IN POLITICS 55
6 THE VYING GAME: COOKING THE BOOKS
IN COLLEGE RANKINGS 63
7 THE VEILED VARIABLE RIDES AGAIN:
TRICKS OF THE TRADE IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 71
8 THERE S A SPECIAL ON FINE PRINT IN AISLE 9:
THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF RETAILING 79
9 DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION: HOW CAR RETAILERS
CONFUSE THE CONSUMER 89
10 REACH OUT AND CONFUSE SOMEONE:
BAFFLE-GAB ON THE PHONE LINE 97
11 YOU MAY ALREADY BE A SUCKER!
MISREPRESENTATION BY MAIL 105
12 BRAVE NEW BAMBOOZLE:
TRICKY BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET 115
13 REALITY (SOUND)BITES: HOW MADE-FOR-MEDIA
PSEUDO-EVENTS DISTORT OUR VIEW OF THE WORLD 123
TEN LISTS OF TEN GUIDELINES FOR BECOMING
A BETTER CONSUMER OF INFORMATION 129
HOW AND WHERE TO COMPLAIN:
A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR CONSUMERS 141
INDEX 225
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