selective information


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Noun1.selective information - (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
communication theory, communications - the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study"
information measure - a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information
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But information relay has become a problem for sometime now because of two developments: one, the ISPR has, for all practical purposes, appropriated all official channels of information and, two, it then chooses to give selective information and discourages, increasingly, critical questions.
If the organisation and planning for the scheme was run as smoothly as the media campaign we would have nothing to worry about, but it is one thing to leak selective information with a positive spin to the press and quite another to put together the most complex public project ever undertaken that will have an annual budget in the region of a billion euro and require the participation of many different stakeholders, with different agendas.
This means that an organisation can insidiously provide selective information and misinformation on Facebook to doctor public opinion.
While past leaders used state control over the media to disseminate selective information to advance their interests, today's trolls and the politicians who fund them have in their arsenal an even stronger weapon of mass disinformation: the internet and social media sites, Gealogo said.
He also alleged that incumbent FIA Director General Bashir Memon holds a personal grudge against the PPP leadership and he is leaking selective information related to JIT probe to damage its reputation.
Some arguments, probably based on selective information and wild extrapolations from individual cases, have their own logic as part of a grand strategy against China.
The reader however expects a connection with this selective information. Other treats of the journal include the contemporary depictions on pages 9798 of journal entries of the Portland area in Victoria.
Intimidating the media seeks to disseminate selective information, and construct an artificial electoral process with the facade of democracy.
"While we understand that at first glance the selective information provided by the media may appear concerning, we would also respond that the media often does not have the entirety of the information due to privacy laws, which we vigorously enforce."
The state secret privilege is invoked to ask judges to keep selective information out of the court as it is argued that it may harm national security.
Podesta said, "There is no evidence of wrongdoing, no charge of wrongdoing, no indication this is even about Hillary." He said Comey was "providing selective information." Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said, "The Justice Department's longstanding practice is: Don't do anything seen as trying to influence an election.

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