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...more than ever, as well as setting the political agenda, governments can manipulate public perceptions. Political scientists have written about the "public relations state"; not "spin" per se, but the way public relations has become institutionalized within government. Not only does the Howard government maintain some three dozen media advisers to deliver its message; like its recent Labor predecessors, it also uses additional people in the state capitals to monitor local media and produce transcripts. If a Labor frontbencher is interviewed on Perth radio, there's a good chance that within a few hours the relevant minister will be responding...
...show that a majority of Iraqis now want the U.S. to leave immediately, and as much as half the population sees violence against Coalition forces as justified in some circumstances. Military commanders on the ground have begun to adapt their tactics to a reality quite different from the official spin of a liberating mission challenged only by foreigners and desperate thugs: At Fallujah, the Marines have given security responsibility to former Iraqi generals who are publicly celebrating the city's "victory" over the U.S., and are recruiting to the new Fallujah security force some of the very people that fought...
...this spin can make the low-carb universe difficult to navigate. But there are a few simple things to keep in mind. First, any bald-faced low-carb claims can get foodmakers into trouble--call it carbage. That's because the Food and Drug Administration has yet to define what constitutes a low-or light-or reduced-carb anything. Hence the proliferation of fuzzier labeling terms like carb smart, carb conscious, carb aware and carb fit. Russell Stover, for example, received a warning letter from the agency about the name of its Low Carb line of chocolates. The company...
...year, with Pirates of the Caribbean, he even managed to mainstream reluctant celebrity Johnny Depp. Rare in the entertainment world, he has been able to transfer his instinct for the mass audience from movies to television, creating the hit crime-investigation series CSI and a seemingly endless parade of spin-offs and imitators like Without a Trace. All told, Bruckheimer projects have grossed more than $13 billion. He has done it by showing that commercial entertainment can be big and brawny but not entirely brainless. Bruckheimer says he simply makes "what I like." Which is why people cheer Jerry Bruckheimer...
...fair to the moguls who passed on LOTR, none of the early movies suggested that Tolkien and Jackson (whose own genial burliness suggests a cross between Sam Gamgee and Boromir) would be a natural match. Indeed, longtime Jackson admirers kept waiting for the Ring cycle to spin off into Dead Alive delirium. That didn't happen. The old films could be anarchic; the trilogy had to be conservative. Jackson's duty, as he saw it, was to make a faithful translation of Middle-earth--a kind of transmedial cloning. His triumph was to oversee a production as mammoth...