A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

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p. 65, The interplay of influence: mass media and their publics in news, advertising, politics, Wadsworth series in mass communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Edition 2, Wadsworth, 1988.

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