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...media while Blair fights for his political survival. After all, the British public rejected war from the start while the U.S. public, ambivalent for a time, succumbed to post-Sept. 11 myopia and preferred safety to nuance. That, and Bush said all the right things. There is no spin zone like the White House...
...released last week, only 36% of British adults considered Blair trustworthy, and 59% said he had failed to live up to their expectations. Critics, both in the Labour Party and outside, largely blame Campbell's style of news management - so combative and relentless that by now people dismiss as spin much of what the government says. Conservative M.P. Alan Duncan, shadow foreign minister, asked to compare Campbell's role with that of previous image makers, replies, "How much do you know about Dr. Goebbels?" and then, more seriously, says, "He's a very competent propagandist; none better...
...recovery of tropical Southeast Asia may take years, however, and depends on more than spin and gloss: comeback strategies must begin with the sobering admission that a very large bubble has burst. Won't Western travelers who put off trips to Asia year after year?to avoid being suffocated by haze, menaced by anti-Western mobs, blown up by terrorist bombs or sickened by weird plagues?simply forget why they wanted to come in the first place? Because compared with all that, a Greek villa or a Caribbean condo is starting to look really rather attractive...
...being fed a commercial," says Anna Prosser of Spring London, the agency that worked with Heinz on the Dinner Doctors campaign. But advertisers may be misjudging audiences. "This kind of manipulation simply fuels the consumer revolt," says David Boyle, author of the new book Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life, who notes growing interest in "services, products and discourse that are unspun, unmanipulated, unpackaged." Not in the ad business. Mark Boyd, head of a new content division at ad agency BBH, says the content-programming hype is huge, though most agencies and their clients haven...
...race-car roots, Porsche has just introduced a new version of its classic 911 sports car: the GT3. A $100,000 two-seat coupe with a throaty 380-h.p. engine, it is Porsche's most powerful nonturbo model. What's the sensation? TIME took the GT3 for a spin at a raceway in Alton, Va., and to the purists, we must say, fear not. The car blasts from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 4.3 sec. and, with its bone-rattling suspension, corners seamlessly even at 80 m.p.h. If you're so inclined, Porsche offers higher-performance brakes for an extra...