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A Good Place to Bury Bad News? Hiding the Detail in the Geography on the Labour Party’s Website
Author(s) -
Dorling Danny,
Eyre Heather,
Johnston Ron,
Pattie Charles
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.00502
Subject(s) - nonsense , fantasy , christian ministry , media studies , sociology , law , advertising , political science , art , literature , business , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
But actually, he thought as he re–adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version.