Not lying … but not telling the whole truth --- I learned this technique when I was a journalist. Selective disclosure is effective to drive our messages home to certain group of audiences, and it seems to closely correlate with the audiences’ level of education and other socioeconomic variables.

E.g. a reader who is exposed to critical thinking will dismiss a piece of information as rubbish but for a layperson it is new knowledge.

Source author: Ivy Susanti ivysusanti@gmail.com