2007-08-03 05:44:31 · 5 answers · asked by MB 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The concept of "spin" on the news used to have another name...
propaganda. The idea behind spin is to encourage ignorance of an issue, so that a bad that can be made to look desirable and a good thing can be made to look undesirable.
Silly examples of spin:
Joke: Senator Jones goes to Venice. There he sees the Pope in a gondola on the canal, and waves. The Pope nods and in doing so, loses his hat. Senator Jones step out of his gondola, walks on the water to retrieve the Pope's hat, takes it to him and returns to his gondola, while the paparazzi take thousands of photos of the event. Next day's news paper carries photos and the headline "Sen. Jones don't know how to swim!"
Joke: Man describing a fight that he lost, "So I kept punching him in the fist with my face. But the guy was tough. it didn't even slow him down!"
Real world example of spin:
Microsoft's Office Suite features seamless integration with the Windows E-Mail client. StarOffice does not. (this seamless integration of the email client and the office suite includes automatically opening Word and Excel files that are sent as email attachments, and executing any macro in the document including worms and viruses)
the description fo anti abortionists as "pro-life" which implies that pro-abortionists are "anti-life"
the description of pro-abortionists as "pro choice" which implies that the anti-abortionists are "anti-choice"
In general, you cannot trust any single media outlet to give you the whole story. The best way is to get your news from many different points of view and compare. Or you can do as most Americans do: Prejudge what you wantto believe and find a news source that tells you what you want to hear.
2007-08-03 06:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by Niklaus Pfirsig 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prime meat for spin doctors and the media. If you do not keep up with the news and know your history, you will have a rough time dealing with your question. Knowledge is important, no matter how old, so you can be aware of what is and is not spin. Even then you will have trouble trying to untangle the untruths. As much, as I like using the web, I am very wary of what I read on it. Blogs are notorious for people to preach their own agenda. Free speech can be a detriment sometimes.
2007-08-03 10:51:09 · answer #2 · answered by SgtMoto 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad for the reason you suggested, You have no time to analyse the news and pick out what are the facts, what is spin from politicians, what is spin from the news media, etc so you give up, think the worst of all of them, and don't bother voting or participating in the electoral process.
2007-08-03 06:54:44 · answer #3 · answered by pluginmaybe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A spin wellness care expert is a actuality of existence. Even till now the term "spin wellness care expert" became invented, there have been PR departments. each and every person tries to place significant activities in the superb achieveable gentle. it is not achieveable to have confidence the media extra often than no longer, and extremely problematical to discover guy or woman factors therein which you will have confidence. do no longer spend too lots time attempting to get to the backside of each and every tale. Do your superb to overview the main severe thoughts from a pair of diverse perspectives. extra suitable yet, attempt to discover a mag it is fiercely self sufficient and that has a solid checklist of criticizing the two Democrats and Republicans. ("Chronicles" comes straight away to suggestions for me.)
2016-10-09 03:25:35 · answer #4 · answered by morabito 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The modern "spin doctor" is just the "politically correct" version of the old "Propaganda Minister", who incidentally, is called a Press Secretary these days.
2007-08-03 06:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by texasjewboy12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋