The economist William Easterly and others have argued that aid can often distort incentives in poor countries in various harmful ways.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News is a non-fiction book by Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer, giving detailed examples of what he calls liberal bias in television news reporting.
Formed by Greg Below, (concert promoter and owner of Distort Productions) and Mitch Joel, (music journalist and publicist) in early 2002, Distort began by producing New Jersey's Step Kings' third release, 3 The Hard Way.
Acourding to an interview with Mitch Joel, Distort Entertainment's name was derived from Distort Productions, which was already established prior to Joel and Below becoming partners.
Rubina's casting in Slumdog Millionaire proved controversial with the producers admitting they debated whether to use real slum children in the film fearing it would distort their lives too much.
Having consistently released highly acclaimed EPs in the past, Shaped By Fate released their debut album The Unbeliever in 2007 through In At The Deep End Records (Gallows, Architects, Send More Paramedics) and digitally throughout the rest of the world via Distort Entertainment of Canada (Alexisonfire, Architects, Cancer Bats, City and Colour).
In their testimony before the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, have similarly testified that the much quoted success rates "dramatically distort the truth", due to the lack of reference to the high drop out rate.
In 1845 Richard Cobbold's historical novel The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl was published, which helped make Catchpole famous, even if it did distort history.
The images within his “Morph-Cubes“ distort in a grotesque way while the onlooker moves.
Any other significant program activity including background processes - for example not needed Windows startup processes (use for example Autoruns) or Windows services (use Service Control Manager), including automatic updates or virus scanners - may disrupt, distort or stop the video recording.
In an interview with The Times on 24 April 2004, Sam Younger, chairman of the British Electoral Commission, said the referendum legislation was unworkable: "There is nothing to stop someone with say, £10 million, creating 20 different groups all of which could spend £500,000. That could distort the whole campaign. The legislation is flawed".
The song features a cameo from Sin City director, Robert Rodriguez, who can be heard saying "Welcome to Sin City" in a distorted voice.
It involves a man seated in a chair crooning about the face of his lover, and as he sings, his own face starts to distort in various ways.