Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

See it every night on the news.

Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression: "# Call the skeptics names like 'conspiracy theorist,' 'nut,' 'ranter,' 'kook,' 'crackpot,' and of course, 'rumor monger.' Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the 'more reasonable' government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own 'skeptics' to shoot down.
# Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).
# Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
# Dismiss the charges as 'old news.'"