Spinsanity: Spin, dissembling, and the current campaign
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:35 pm
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/4/keefer-tsunami.asp
Echoes my impressions exactly. Nobody calls a lie a lie; there's a glut of information, and it's impossible for the highly comitted (let alone the average citizen) to figure out the validity of much of it. "Benefit of the doubt," long set-ups for eleventh hour punchlines, and misleading lawyer-esque contextualization from both sides. Yes. I hate this already.
Echoes my impressions exactly. Nobody calls a lie a lie; there's a glut of information, and it's impossible for the highly comitted (let alone the average citizen) to figure out the validity of much of it. "Benefit of the doubt," long set-ups for eleventh hour punchlines, and misleading lawyer-esque contextualization from both sides. Yes. I hate this already.