Sentence examples for phony balance from inspiring English sources
"What the Clinton partisans wanted was for us to create a phony balance that was at odds with what our eyes were telling us.
So I'll continue to wake up worrying about President Obama, and having arguments with headlines, in my own way trying to shield the forces of truth from trumped-up criticism and phony balance, even if the argument is made only in my head.
But once again, in referendum coverage, the corporation actively required its journalists to supply this phony balance, even when that meant, as Jones put it on science, allowing rhetoric – say Gove's "hostages" in a car – "to give the appearance of debate".
For example, Chris Mooney, a blogger for Discover magazine (blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/04/21/false-balance-in-matthew-nisbets-climate-shift-report) has accused Matthew Nisbet of Climate Shift of phony balance.
No need to download those phony ATM balance receipts http://www.prankplace.com/atm.htm.htm
Alter said that often the problem with the press is that, "The analysis team is constrained by a phony sense of balance".
In effect, a shadow banking system has arisen with big banks moving loans off their balance sheets into phony trust companies and thus evading official caps on total lending.
Nevertheless, Mr. Morgenthau said, both banks knew exactly what they were doing: lending Enron large sums of cash disguised as complex commodities deals, which Enron then used to gussy up its balance sheet, create phony cash flow and otherwise manipulate its books at great cost to investors and, ultimately, thousands of Enron workers who lost their jobs.
Other arithmetic by which the budget is being "balanced" is just as phony.
One of the ways it had concocted phony profits was to "sell" assets to off-balance-sheet entities it controlled, and to book profits on those sales.
Democrats are sure to seize on the maneuver as phony math; without these projections, however, Ryan's budget plan would fall almost $70bn short of balance.
