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...mainly in order to be in another large room after the debate, where spinners for the candidates recite lines written before the debate about how their clients won the debate. The ritual is so well known and so completely accepted that CNN recently started a nightly program called The Spin Room. Twenty-first century pols and pundits don't mind appearing on a show based on the official premise that whatever they say will be calculated and insincere...
...year 2000 was also a good one for spin in the private sector, where it goes by the name of marketing. For intellectual-integrity buffs, marketing has an advantage over political spin: you can often design the product around the sales message. In other words, reality can come to you. You don't face the Hobson's choice of either following reality wherever it leads (which can put you off-message) or plunging into disingenuousness. But in the age of spin, who is dainty enough to care about the connection between an advertisement and the product it is intended...
...hotel's claim is not inherently or obviously metaphorical. Yet it's clearly not true--a point that probably didn't even occur to the producers of the ad or 99% of its viewers. The deception is not on purpose; few are deceived. But the process of producing a spin for this hotel chain apparently did not include reality as even a minor consideration...
These ads are naked spin. They don't distort reality; they simply dispense with it. That's why 2000 was the year of spin. It couldn't go further in 2001. Could...
...dispenses $14 billion a year in research grants. But there are other attractions--proximity to Johns Hopkins, a start-up-friendly local government, an abundance of office space; and most of all, a critical mass of like-minded scientist-entrepreneurs determined to unravel the secrets of the genome and spin them into gold...