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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

• The New Policy Battlefield: All Eyes On Coca-Cola and Social Media PR
• “Healthcare” Dilemma? Plastic Surgeons Seek a PR Facelift
• The Perino Conundrum: Tyranny of PR’s Expert Inexperts
• Tank Warfare: Alaska PR Initiative Targets Polar Bears
• Goldman Sachs About to Ditch its Golden Flack… for a bad PR strategy?
• Palin & Stalin: What Do We Believe? That PR… Thou Art a Shameful Fraud
• WordPlay Weekend: Cut “Workers’” Wages?… A Vector of Orthogonal Dimensions
• BS of the Month Award: Why I’m Not Fit For GoldmanFlacks
• Fuck You Barack Obama
• The White House News War: Forget Glenn Beck. Barack Obama is “Howard Beale.”

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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.

• Behind The Spin
• Brendan Cooper (a.k.a. The Friendly Ghost)
• Commercial Alert
• Dave Fleet
• 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
• Sword and the Script
• 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

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
• The Quantum Pontiff
• denialism blog
• Language Hat
• 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 November, 2009

Fuck You Barack Obama

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

I quit you. I'm done. Last night killed it. I have been a registered independent since my first presidential election in 1980, in which I voted for John Anderson.
Yet, I marched for you. I gave money. I handed out posters to my friends. I volunteered. All for you. Because I believed, naively it turns out, [...]

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