RE: [BNW] Re: Truth's reliability possible spoilers

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>   But you can also take a set of facts and sway them one way or another to
>suit your position. She is trying to keep DP off her back in her secret
>identity by giving them the information with enough of a slant as to make

But we're not talking about her secret ID.  The information on page 49 is 
being told on the Deltatimes Web Site by Truth, _not_ in the paper that her 
secret identity works for.

I understand that in her secret ID she might tell a different tale for her 
paper, and one favorable to DP.  But that has nothing to do with the item in 
question where we were told to "consider the source."

As Truth, in the context of the Deltatimes source we're given, there is no 
reason to give it a slant to keep DP off her back.  She's on their Most 
Wanted list and that ain't going to change.  Which was exactly my point.

>them look good most of the time but still be relatively accurate. That goes
>on a lot today in the real world. Yet as Truth, she comes up with 'real'
>information and the 'Defiant side of the issue' I figure she is truly a
>master propagandist with a power to get the truth. She is intelligent 
>enough
>to manipulate it to what she deems to be in the best interests of whichever
>organization she's working for.
>

My question remains:  why when giving the 'Defiant side of the issue' as 
Truth (the only context we're talking about here - nowhere does any article 
her secret ID publishes appears in the main book or Ravaged Planet that I'm 
aware of...) would she be she spreading false information about the strength 
and tactical superiority of Delta Prime?  DP would know she is lying.

A "master propagandist", when trying to mislead Side One that she is giving 
"true" information about Side Two, doesn't tell lies that Side One can 
easily disprove.  That just renders her less convincing in the eyes of Side 
One.

Truth doesn't work for any newspaper, or for Delta Prime.  The article in 
question about the Patriot rescue attempt is told by Truth, not her secret 
ID.  Why would Truth in this case be slanting the information in their best 
interests?

*shrug* If the DP-favorable bit had appeared in a newspaper article, it 
would make sense.  It doesn't make much sense (for the reasons stated above 
and previously) for it to appear on DeltaTimes.

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Steve Crow

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