Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The deliberate presentation of a largely uncontroversial matter as subject to substantive dispute in order to further a particular ideological or political agenda.
Etymologies
- Blend of manufactured and controversy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Quite simply, they created a 'manufactroversy' - a phrased coined by my colleague Max Bernstein, the strategy of creating a controversy where there isn't one.”
“My colleague Max Bernstein and I created a word to describe the right's strategy of creating a scientific controversy where there is none -- manufactroversy.”
The Huffington Post: James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California
“Do you roll your eyes about the "war on Christmas"manufactroversy?”
“Do you roll your eyes about the "war on Christmas" manufactroversy?”
“Sure, McCain has every right to question Obama's policies, his past statements and past votes, and even his past associations to the extent they are truly relevant and not a manufactroversy (i.e., a manufactured controversy).”
Paul Abrams: McCain, Media & Meltdown: A Witches' Brew for Election Violence
“NewsLadder. net that aggregates articles and blog posts about this manufactroversy and some other pretty famous ones as well.”
Valerie Tarico: Ben Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy
“A manufactroversy is when someone motivated by profit or ideology fosters confusion in the public mind long after scientists have moved on to the next set of questions.”
Valerie Tarico: Ben Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy
“Our dearly-beloved news media, always preferring a manufactroversy (i.e., manufactured controversy) to useful dialogue, has fanned the flames of this issue.”
Paul Abrams: 4%--That's What Joe-the-Plumber, Socialism, Communism, is All About
“Now, there are great sites like this one, over 60 million blogs, aggregating tools like NewsLadders, and social networks - www. myspace.com/manufactroversy has almost 1,000 members in a week.”
“Every day, we are seeing how these tools and networks, platforms and applications are changing our world, and the proof is in the growing power of one made-up word: manufactroversy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘manufactroversy’.
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seanahan's Words
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Michael Critz List
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Tweets
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billprice "While it's true that last week parents were told that Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper was fraudulent, what we're dealing with is not a "debate." It's a pseudodebate. It's a manufactroversy. The actual scientific debate over whether vaccines cause autism was over years ago."
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/jenny_mccarthy_weighs_in_about_andrew_wa.php Jan 11, 2011
mcritz A manufactured controversy. Jan 11, 2011
seanahan See this link . Apr 14, 2008