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	Spin (public relations) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In public relations, spin is a usually pejorative term signifying a heavily biased portrayal in one's own favor of an event or situation.
		Because of the frequent association between "spin" and press conferences (especially government press conferences), the room in which these take place is sometimes described as a spin room.
		"Spin" was originally an acronym, "Significant Progress In the News," used by public relations specialists in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the mid-1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spin_(politics) (314 words)

	Pistols, Swords, and Spin :: Keystone Politics :: Pennsylvania Politics, PA Politics, Ed Rendell, Rick Santorum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the ever stranger world of politics, whether it be local or national the truth is often an unwelcome anchor chaining candidates to the bottom of a swirling and angry sea of reportage and punditry.
		Spin doctors are political operatives who get to bring in the bolt cutters and unchain the candidate from reality.
		The spin doctors pop up all over the cable channels, and present a version of the debate which is wholly unmoored from reality in most cases.
	www.keystonepolitics.com /Article339.html (1010 words)

	Station Information - Spin (politics)
		In politics and public relations spin refers to portraying an event or fact in a way that is favorable to you and unfavorable to your political opponents.
		Practitioners of spin are often referred to as spin doctors.
		Spin is effectively the techniques of "grey propaganda" applied to politics and PR.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spin__politics_.html (103 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf
		These days Kinsella is spin doctoring full time for the prime minister in his battle with Paul Martin for control of the Liberal brass ring, which passes for the soul of the Liberal party.
		Then Kinsella seemed to forget that a spin doctor who does not first heal himself, and who gets more publicity and attention than the politician he is spinning for, is one sick spin doctor.
		The worst threat to a spin doctor's survival, however, is to have skeletons in his own closet.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20020617.html (1133 words)

	Spin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Second, spin is facilitated by the forum provided by the media; in particular, spin as a political strategy has benefited from the proliferation of cable television and specifically the rise of political talk shows, which offers a stage for the practitioners of spin.
		Spin can be proactive or reactive, can originate with a political actor or be carried out through surrogates, and can be a campaigning or governing activity (to the extent that the one set of political activities can be meaningfully extruded from the other).
		After all, the psychological motivations of political spin are self-evident: parties and politicians use spin as a semi-legitimate tactic in a twilight struggle to seize the political initiative.
	www.rsu.edu /faculty/khicks/Essays/Spin.htm (8588 words)

	‘Spin This’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spin lies somewhere in between: almost telling the truth, but not quite; bending the truth to make things look as good — or as bad — as possible; painting things in the best possible — or worst possible — light.
		Unlike any other political show on television, Spin Room was a casual, meandering conversation: a chance to kick back at the end of the day, chew over the latest news, poke holes into the most outrageous spins of the day, read e-mails and chat room comments from viewers and, most important, enjoy a few laughs.
		In those cases, spin is more accurately called a “lie.” However, as Lanny Davis — former spinner for Bill Clinton and one of the world’s best — observes in his book Truth to Tell, that kind of spin often backfires, because the truth comes out and the liar is caught with egg on his face.
	www.msnbc.com /news/800493.asp (3893 words)

	CNN.com - UK politics: Spinning with the times? - May 8, 2001
		Riddell rejects the notion that Blair is being manipulated by political cronies.
		But he acknowledges that the resources devoted to shaping political messages have increased dramatically in recent years, with more attention paid to questions of tactics, slogans and focus groups.
		Nor is spin and image-polishing a phenomenon confined to New Labour and its acolytes.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/07/ukpolitics.spin (974 words)

	Peace Process or Spin Politics?
		The White House and State Department spin machines were working overtime on Friday, to make sure the mainstream media reported the Clinton administration version of the last minute break-down in the Wye Plantation negotiations.
		It would have been political suicide for him to drop the extradition demand against Jabali and the other known terrorists, without getting significant concessions in exchange - especially since President Clinton was insisting that the CIA be used as jail keepers in Gaza to ensure that convicted terrorists were kept behind bars.
		Now that the CIA has become thoroughly enmeshed in the political negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, it obviously felt it could put its own negotiating demand onto the table: that Pollard remain behind bars.
	www.jonathanpollard.org /1998/102798a.htm (974 words)

	The Observer \| Politics \| When spin turns into lies
		In truth they are united by the same weakness; a political agenda without an anchor of purpose and values that prevents the Government from drawing the line between correct and incorrect conduct.
		The British media, which itself spins to a scurrilous degree and has contributed to Labour's obsession with presentation, is in no position to lecture.
		Whitehall distrust of the Labour spin machine, which finally ended Jo Moore's career, was not created by one infamous email; it results from observing the systematic corruption of the dissemination of news.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,651632,00.html (523 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Campbell: Spin 'damaged politics'
		Government chief "spin doctor" has admitted Labour attempts to control the media have been partly to blame for public antipathy towards politics.
		He accepted there had been "problems" in Labour's first term with re-announcements of policies and initiatives, but laid some of the blame on the increasing appetite of 24-hour news and the newspaper industry.
		But likening the relationship with the media to a "dialogue of the deaf" at times, Mr Campbell said that accusations and counter-accusations of spin and obsession with trivia harmed voters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1976000/1976504.stm (693 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2001052386
		Spin lies somewhere in between: almost telling the truth, but not quite; bending the truth to make things look as good -- or as bad -- as possible; painting things in the best possible -- or worst possible -- light.
		In such an environment, spin is essential to enabling one to mask the truth -- both in speech and in life.
		In those cases, spin is more accurately called a "lie." However, as Lanny Davis -- former spinner for Bill Clinton and one of the world's best -- observes in his book Truth to Tell, that kind of spin often backfires, because the truth comes out and the liar is caught with egg on his face.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon051/2001052386.html (3929 words)

	PressThink: Guest Writer Lisa Stone: Kind of a Drag-- A Short History of Spin Alley and the Press
		His New Political Dictionary describes “spin” as “deliberate shading of news perception; attempted control of political reaction.” (See Wordspy for this definition and an elaboration.) This is basic: spin is an art of control.
		The spin in question comes from pool and baseball, according to Graeme Donald’s Dictionary of Modern Phrase, “relating to a ball struck by the cue or pitched in such a way as to behave deceptively in travel due to what is known in British circles as ‘side’ or spin.
		Political scientists used the heck out of it in their literature in the 1990s, and communications scholars have used it since.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/12/09/spn_stone.html (12241 words)

	NPR : 'Spin', Present at the Creation
		They'll be the Spin Doctors, senior advisers to the candidates, and they'll be playing for very high stakes.
		In his book, Safire's New Political Dictionary, lexicographer William Safire defines spin as "deliberate shading of news perception; attempted control of political reaction." In today's media-saturated political climate, the distinction between politics and spin might seem superfluous.
		Atwater, who served on many campaigns, including Reagan's trek to the 1984 election, is generally remembered as the superstar of spin, the inevitable man at the center of that great clump of reporters with outstretched microphones.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/spin (1058 words)

	Adam Wolfson
		Unfortunately, one crucial point is likely to be overlooked: That this election saw the "politics of spin" rise to unprecedented heights of shamelessness.
		Gore's politics of spin was not always so hackneyed and benign.
		To be sure, the politics of spin has been practiced by Republicans as well as by Democrats.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0101/wolfson122300.asp (761 words)

	Spin_(politics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In public relations, spin is a usually pejorative term signifying a heavily biased portrayal in one's own favor of an event or situation that is designed to bring about the most positive result possible.
		As an example of spin, when US President George W. Bush was running for his first term, the American public initially interpreted his stumbling and inarticulate way of speaking as a sign of low intellect.
		They were able to spin this trait in this way because then-President Bill Clinton had built up a reputation as an articulate intellectual who was himself quite talented at spin.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Spin_(politics) (483 words)

	411mania.com » Politics » Socialist Spin 09.01.04:Eight Crazy Nights
		They believe the role of government is to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of those who embrace their economic, political and social views, leaving ordinary citizens to fend for themselves on important matters like health care and retirement security.
		Senator John McCain with progressive fans on both sides of the political spectrum, from Arizona, opened the convention with his vindicating speech.
		McCain, renown for voting his conscience, and not necessarily his party politics, was in great controversy in 2000 when he was the chief opponent of George W. Bush for the Republican nomination.
	www.411mania.com /politics/topics/article.php?news_id=6213 (1437 words)

	British Politics
		The political debates that the party will have will be fierce and will matter, but they will stay within the boundaries of that political settlement.
		Anthony is knowledgeable and the political betting commentators are a good antidote to my own bias in the interpretation of the data.
		Indeed, as a political bribe, it is a little like taking someones wallet, and then offering to bribe them with one of their own fivers.
	britishspin.blogspot.com (6534 words)

	Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal: Spin me dizzy...
		He added: "The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become, because they can't stand the thought of a free society."
		I think spin is still the word for it.
		Yes, if we were closer to success you could argue in the abstract the terrorists would get desperate and try harder.
	rhetorica.net /archives/001867.html (435 words)

	Forums - View Single Post - Spin Sanitising Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The very fact that I can sit at a PC and freely discuss (and dispute) global politics without fear, and that I have the ability to - and am even encouraged to - influence the politics and society in my own country, is rare and precious as diamonds.
		And although he wasn't quite being what you describe as the "lawgiver", when our PM committed our country to the invasion of Iraq despite the wishes of a clear majority of the people, well, that was when I sensed that there is a possibioity that the liberties I enjoy can be endangered.
		Paraphrased from memory, he said retailers naturally "spin" their products to persuade you to buy, but politics is not commerce (yet) and there's a big difference when you're talking about something as serious as getting involved in a war.
	www.prwatch.org /forum/showpost.php?p=7472&postcount=5 (470 words)

	Spin (politics) : Spin doctors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		terms defined : Spin (politics) : Spin doctors
		In politics and public relations spin refers to portraying an eventor fact in a way that is favorable to you and unfavorableto your political opponents.
		This certainly was plain my boy did anything, or said anything, that Carter had a right.
	www.termsdefined.net /sp/spin-doctors.html (363 words)

	Fineman: Beware the debate spin doctors - Howard Fineman - MSNBC.com
		They don't call themselves "spin doctors," of course (which, by the way, wouldn't be a bad name for the new Washington baseball team).
		The ultimate spin doctors aren't in the Wellness Center but in the polls — the instant ones and the avalanche of them that will follow this weekend.
		Howard Fineman is Newsweek’s chief political correspondent and an NBC News analyst.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6143026 (1190 words)

	Pop culture puts its spin on politics - 7/16/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The relationship between pop culture and politics is a “very intimate” one, says Christine Cupaiuolo, founder of www.poppolitics.com, a Web site devoted to exploring how the two intertwine.
		Pop culture’s affect on politics can be traced as far back as the 1850s, when the popularity of the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was said to influence the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
		Another pop politics watershed moment came during the 1992 Presidential campaign, when Bill Clinton granted an interview to MTV and appeared on “The Arsenio Hall Show” wearing shades and wailing away on his saxophone.
	www.detnews.com /2004/politics/0407/16/c01-214026.htm (1567 words)

	Spin (politics) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Find spin politics - Your relevant result is a click away!
		Another spin technique involves the delay in the release of bad news so it can be hidden on the back of more important or favourable news or events.
		It is the PR equivalent of calling a writer a "hack." Perhaps the most well-known person in the UK often described as a "spin doctor" is Alastair Campbell, who was involved with Tony Blair's public relations between 1994 and 2003.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Spin_%28politics%29 (491 words)

	Russia, Politics, Spin - JRL 2-24-05
		For all the heavy-duty propaganda they’ve had to put up with over 70 years of communism, Russians must be the most media savvy bunch of information consumers in the world.
		Why, just last week, five Russian spin-doctors were busted in Moldova for spinning opposition “propaganda”, as the local authorities saw it.
		Russia’s spin industry is one of the fastest growing in the world, with profits rivaling those of the nation’s top export, oil, in GDP percentage.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9066-10.cfm (644 words)

	SPIN POLITICS AND PARTISANSHIP BLUES
		Dick Morris's political commentary on the Impeachment and the work of his career offers insight with which to examine a growing discontent among the American public towards our nation's politics.
		Essentially this view of centrism holds that the majority of Americans are in a consensus that lies in between the partisanship of the political parties.
		By separating oneself from their party and moving toward the center of the political spectrum, a candidate is likely to get elected.
	debate.uvm.edu /impeachment/kelly.html (3176 words)

	The Rhetorica Network: Analysis of Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Spin in Politics and Journalism
		Deniability in political rhetoric is considered a beautiful thing by those who cover their posteriors.
		Dana Milbank's column on body language is, in a word, nonsense, constructed as it is by an amateur (body linguist?) and based on observations of things seen on television (!!!).
		Political reporting doesn't get much nuttier (or politically useless) than this.
	www.rhetorica.net (2557 words)

	Sound Politics: More spin and b.s.
		The article could just as easily be written by a Gregoire campaign aide as by a political reporter from a newspaper that prides itself on being "neutral, fair, thorough and thoughtful".
		Every time CG talks she seems to ooze arrogance and condescension, but now that I know she came from humble beginnings and is not anti-cat, I feel so much better about her hubris.
		I could be wrong, but I just don't see CG as a politic centrist.
	www.soundpolitics.com /archives/003421.html (1604 words)

	Politics aside, spin doctors left flat-footed by Hogs
		Politics aside, spin doctors left flat-footed by Hogs
		FAYETTEVILLE -- If you didn't know better, you'd think he drove a pickup around town peddling chickens by the piece instead of by the international ton.
		This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
	www.ardemgaz.com /special/sports/ua/fb2000/10072000/cAwally3.html (674 words)

	Forums - Spin Sanitising Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's the sort of word a PR flack might use to blunt the attack on a political client caught with their hand in the till.
		Politicians are often (but not always) involved in the process of passing laws, although the fact is that in most countries they vote along party lines, rubber-stamping executive decisions.
		Some political scientists have pointed out that it was when Rome acquired its empire that it ceased being a Republic and became a military dictatorship, and expressed fears that the same thing is happening to the U.S. I hope they're wrong, but I'm afraid they may not be.
	www.prwatch.org /forum/showthread.php?t=3688 (1415 words)

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