Editing Credibility gap (section)

{{Short description|Journalistic term}}
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'''Credibility gap''' is a term that came into wide use with [[journalism]], political and public discourse in the [[United States]] during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] administration's statements and policies on the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="american chronicle">{{cite news|url=http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/6883|work=American Chronicle|date=March 15, 2006|title=Happy Anniversary to the first scheduled presidential press conference - 93 years young!|first=Robert|last=Rouse|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913094418/http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/6883|archive-date=September 13, 2008|access-date=November 12, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was used in journalism as a [[euphemism]] for recognized lies told to the public by politicians. Today, it is used more generally to describe almost any "gap" between an actual situation and what politicians and government agencies say about it.<ref name="Hoh"/><ref name="USAToday"/>