Not exact matches
Playing without a goalkeeper to throw the other team off
balance and lull them
into a
false sense of security?
The general public is thereby lured
into a
false sense of security in the belief that they can get all their vitamins from a government - recommended «
balanced diet.»
While you do need to use credit to build your credit history, the idea that you need to go
into debt or carry a
balance to build good credit scores is completely
false.
Climate media coverage was likewise a mixed bag, with continued
false balance and inaccurate reporting from the politically conservative media, also seeping
into the BBC.
I frequently criticize science journalism for falling
into one or more common traps —
false balance, hyperbole, misleading framing, failure to put one study
into the proper context, inappropriate extrapolation, and others.
And yet, with the sole exception of CBS» «Face the Nation,» all of the major networks got tripped up by the
false balance trap: in the interest of showing «both sides» of the climate debate, they gave a platform to people who «feel,» against all scientific evidence, that man - made climate change isn't real, thus feeding
into the fallacy that it's something that can be debated at all.
There are excellent journalists out there, but the average mediocre journalist tends to fall for the fallacy of
false balance, indulge in hype and sensationalism, overly rely on individual experts who may have quirky opinions, and often fail to put topics
into a proper context.
Making this a uniformity across the country would
balance out the
false beliefs and propaganda that have been put
into the minds of people in our communities over the past 50 years.