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In brief...

This is an anti-spin blog focused primarily on the communications profession. But we are also very interested the use of language in politics, media, science, and business.

Hopefully regular folks outside the p.r. "industry" will enjoy it, as well as people in the business and just about anyone interested in the use, and abuse, of language in our modern-day dark art of perception management (aka: spin).

Recent Posts

• Slip of the Tongue? When We End Up Saying More than We Mean
• Orwellian Olympiad (II): Ministry of Truth Revises Gymnast’s Past and Gets Caught… THIS TIME
• Orwellian Olympic PR Deception: Are We Too Dumbed Down to Care?
• BS of the Month Award: Gray Lady Calls Out Freddie Mac CEO Syron for Being Two-Face
• Cock-a-Doodle-Doo-Doo: PR’s Secondary Lies and Tacit Approvals are Lies All the Same
• Press Releases We’d Love To See!!… “Scientology Acquires Kabbalah to Form World’s Most Famous Secret Religion”
• Girl Power vs. Feminism: An Interesting Juxtaposition at the Brooklyn Museum
• PRSA Gets it Wrong Again: CBS Rant Against PR Wasn’t an Attack, It Was an Obituary
• Going Out on a Limb, I Predict: Joe Lieberman (R) CT
• Jim Abernathy Gives China a Big Sloppy Kiss, Gives PR a BIG BLACK EYE

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PR and "Spin" Blogs

In one way or another all these blogs take on the issue of "spin"... from inside as well as outside the PR profession. (Please don't call it an "industry.") Visit their sites; click on their ads; make them some money.

• Brendan Cooper (a.k.a. The Friendly Ghost)
• Commercial Alert
• Dave Fleet
• DC Shuffle
• De-Smog Blog
• FlackLife
• Greenbanana
• Media Guerilla
• Micropersuasion
• Murphy's Law
• Naked PR
• PR conversations
• PR Meets the WWW
• PR on the run
• PR Watch (Ctr. for Media & Democracy)
• Scatterbox
• Social Media Explorer
• Spin Watch
• Strumpette
• The Bad Pitch Blog
• The Buzz Bin
• The Cycle (PR Week Blog)
• The Exchange (GII blog)
• The Flack
• The PR Lab
• Tough Sledding

Constantin Basturea has put together the most hugest, most stupendous global blog list imaginable... it is maintained on Bloglines:

• PR Meets the WWW Blogroll

Brendan Cooper maintains a great composite index of PR blog rankings:

• PR Friendly Index

Political Blogs

• Americablog
• American Footprints
• Buck Naked Politics
• Crooks & Liars
• Donkelphant
• Foriegn Policy
• HotPotatoMash
• IraqSlogger
• Talking Points Memo
• Politico
• Raw Story
• TPM Muckraker
• Washington Babylon
• The Washington Note
• truth out
• The Mahablog
• One Utah

Language, Philosophy & Science

• Brad Delong
• Real Climate
• Yes There's Method In It
• Hermeneutic Heretic
• Philosopher's Playground
• Sharp Sand
• The Linguist
• Thoughts From Kansas
• Language Hat
• I Have To Tell You
• Language Log
• Dani Rodrik

Broadcast News

• ABC
• NBC/MSNBC
• CBS
• FOX
• CNN
• CNBC
• BBC
• The Daily Show!

Wires

• Bloomberg
• Reuters (US)
• Agence-France Press (Eng)
• Nikkei (Eng)

Newspapers

• Wash. Post
• NY Times
• LA Times
• Chicago Tribune
• Houston Chronicle
• San Fran. Chronicle
• Miami Herald
• Atl Journal & Constitution
• Boston Globe
• Seattle Times
• Kansas City Star
• New Orleans Times Picayune
• Times of London
• Wall Street Journal
• Financial Times (US)

PR Links

• IABC
• PRSA
• PR Week
• O'Dwyer's Newsletter
• Bulldog Reporter

Archive for January, 2008

PR Council’s Weekly BuzzKill: Lame 2.0 Strategy, a Page Out of PRSA’s Non-News Playbook?

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

For non-PR people, this story offers an example of how NOT to do PR, and why our profession is in the trouble it’s in….
The Council of PR Firms recently announced that they are bankrolling a new electronic newsletter with Bulldog Reporter, called The Weekly Buzz.
The goal is to “create visibility for the Council,” but also […]

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