Leader: How truth can disappear in the language of denial

From: The Scotsman | Date: December 14, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

WHAT is truth - and what is denial? A central reason for the worsening of relations between Downing Street and the press has been the resort to a style of rebuttal and denial that proves to be less than, well ... a whole denial. That is by no means to say that newspaper stories about Downing Street are everywhere and at all times true, and the denials mere concoctions designed to mislead, confound and confuse. Most of the time, and in most circumstances, Downing Street and the media work towards a common end of ensuring that the facts of a story are true and the Prime Minister's actions are ...

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