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Showing posts with label spin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spin. Show all posts
21 December 2016

Spin, illustrated #nlpoli

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Spin is a bit more than a mere biased interpretation or a clever reframing of an idea.  In other words, there's more to it than saying t...
20 September 2011

Ceeb spins story for Tories #nlpoli

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Rather than correct a mistaken early report on the cost of the Liberal party’s pension proposal the CBC online decided to torque the story a...
12 October 2010

Air Canada, the Maple Leafs and sucking

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Air Canada sucks. The Toronto Maple Leafs also suck. Both suck for the same, basic reason. They have fanatics who will suffer any indi...
08 August 2010

Telly Torques Tourism: one story, two headlines

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Submitted for your approval:  the same story with two headlines.  “Northern peninsula needs to spark interest: group” as the Telegram put...
30 July 2010

Sins of omission

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“Five key bridges in the western portion of the T’Railway Provincial Park that closed in 2008 are now re-opened to park users. … [The fiv...
24 July 2010

Inaccurately accurate university enrolment trends

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This past week, CBC Radio’s Morning Show interviewed Reeta Tremblay, Memorial University vice president (academic) about a Statistics Canada...
20 August 2008

"counter-spinning negativity"

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Now, by any logical process, in order for there to be counter-spin, there has to be spin first. This is not a chicken and egg thing;  very...
01 February 2008

Gov Comm 101: How to manage crisis spin

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1. Write a news release which deliberately buries the real news so far down the page that reporters are likely to miss it. 2. Omit key ...