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Titolo: Dopo lunghi anni di studio, eminenti studiosi concludono che i Politici dicono bugie...

Qualche volta "perche' e' necessario".
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,958306,00.html
Truth is, politicians just can't help lying 
Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent
Sunday May 18, 2003
The Observer 
They may prefer to call it being 'economical with the actualité'. But
it's official: politicians just can't help telling lies.
A new study of the art of telling political whoppers, from the
cash-for-questions scandal to Bill Clinton's sex life, concludes what
cynical voters have long suspected - that it is almost impossible for
modern politicians to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth.
The catch? Apparently, it is mostly the electorate's fault for asking
too many questions in the first place.
'Politics should be regarded as less like an exercise in producing
truthful statements and more like a poker game,' said author Glen
Newey, reader in politics at the University of Strathclyde. 'And there
is an expectation by a poker player that you try to deceive them as
part of the game.'
His study concludes that the drive towards an open and accountable
modern democracy - forcing Ministers to answer ever more exhaustive
questions on issues they used to be able to gloss over - creates a
'culture of suspicion and makes it more likely that politicians will
resort to evasion and misrepresentation and lies'.
'When journalists or other parliamentary colleagues start to probe at
that area which the Government wants to keep secret, you are likely to
be pushed further and further towards the territory of lying,' he
said.
'I don't think there's any good way around that problem. Politicians
need to be more honest about lying.'
Lying techniques varied from blatant misrepresentation of the facts,
to using highly ambiguous language - as when Clinton insisted he 'did
not have sexual relations' with Monica Lewinsky. It later emerged he
was not counting oral sex as 'sexual relations'.
Newey's report - published by the government-funded Economic and
Social Research Council - adds that not only is lying 'sometimes
justifiable' where there is a public interest, for instance where
national security is at risk, but voters even have a 'right to be lied
to' about things where they would rather not know what had happened,
such as what was done during a war.
Clare Short's accusation last week, on resigning from Cabinet, that
the Prime Minister had misled her over Iraq focused renewed interest
in truthfulness at Westminster. MPs regularly complain that an unfair
assumption that they are all liars is eroding public confidence in
politics.
The problem is, psychologists say, that politicians who do lie are
usually very good at it.
'Politicians are often "high self-monitors" - people who are very
conscious of the image that they give off: they are able to say "if I
hesitate over this, use that particular word or hold my hands like
that, people will think this",' said Dr Richard Wiseman, a
psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire.
Most get caught in the end however, Wiseman says, because keeping a
consistent yarn together 'if you are leading a complex life, as most
politicians do, is pretty hard'.

 
Il solito disinformatore del Torrieri che ha gia' stabilito che
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Glen Newey, reader in politics at the University of Strathclyde.
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e' un "eminente studioso" :))))))))))
*ROTFL*
-Stefano