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cppcis11
11-24-2009, 09:53 PM
i need to find an article that has a fallacy inside of it and am having a lot of trouble finding one does anybody know where i can find one or have an example of a story?

hellsapoppin
11-26-2009, 09:20 PM
Are you referring to the infamous Janet Cooke articles from the Washington Post around 1980 about a missing kid? She won a Pulitzer even though it had been rumored to be fake. Thereafter, it's fallacy was confirmed. There was also one in the NY Times about 3 years ago but I forgot the writer's name.

OrphanPip
11-26-2009, 10:31 PM
I think he's looking for an article that contains a logical fallacy, like argumentum ad populum.

FoghornBellows
11-26-2009, 10:47 PM
Find something related to the equal treatment of animals. Hone in on someone saying something about animals suffering. Any kind of appeal to emotion or appeal to pity. Besides, if God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so delicious.
That's all I can think of, and I don't feel like doing your assignment for you.

JuniperWoolf
11-27-2009, 12:37 AM
I don't feel like doing your assignment for you.

Ditto.

gbrekken
11-27-2009, 12:43 PM
find mays, maize, maze. don't recall the proper spelling of the guy's name. the best lie i ever told was a license plate that said literal. finally changed because too many people asked what it meant