It was, in effect, a counternarrative, written from her point of view.

And it was bad politics, providing no clear counternarrative to support the powers of government now under attack from the right.

This false conclusion was then used as a step in the presentation of the counternarrative.

Then we get the counternarrative, from the wife, who at last is granted a name: Amina.

Their goal, they said, was to offer a pro-government counternarrative to media coverage of Syria.

The Pfizer lawyers set out to build a counternarrative.

"Most lawyers who do this type of work talk to the media to create a counternarrative for their client," says Kuby.

"This is his opportunity to present his counternarrative, that Obama's growing the wrong economy.

The novel is a counternarrative to Heart of Darkness.

In a sense, they are a counternarrative.

"I want to produce the counternarrative," he said, "but there is less and less room for this in our media system.

But in response, the U.S. has also begun to control the message, often by providing a counternarrative or admitting responsibility.

As a result, American Jews on every part of the ideological spectrum are unwilling to provide a counternarrative to the anti–pink-washing movement.

"They have decided to develop a counternarrative based on half-truths and outright lies," Öktem says.

"The narrative ends in the rubble and it is left to us to create the counternarrative," DeLillo wrote.

Instead, the film spins a cathartic counternarrative.

They are accompanied by text that explores the history from Ms. Weems’s perspective, creating a counternarrative to the way the images were often intended.

Mr. Nye clearly prefers these critiques to celebrations, but the counternarrative surely deserves its own countering.

But Jacobson points out that the government is often the least effective messenger for a counternarrative to terrorists; former terrorists and extremists are in a better position.

"The goal was to make a movie that could present a counternarrative," said Michael Galinsky, who directed the movie with Suki Hawley.

And so ever since the 2008 election, the right has embraced a sweeping counternarrative, in which the president’s eloquence is a myth and his brilliance a pure invention.

This supports the counternarrative that Mr. Skilling was simply reckless and did not intend to hurt investors but simply didn’t care enough to get these things right.

They cite Hersey's "Hiroshima," an apolitical book on the face of it, in a chapter they call "A Counternarrative Emerges."

The opposition nevertheless has discounted those findings and deployed its own local and imported pollsters, who have delivered a spotty counternarrative of public support for Georgian Dream.

But the exceptionalism argument offers some voters a reassuring counternarrative to persistent joblessness, a long-term hollowing out of the middle class and a sense that the nation’s best days are past.