Free Market Malarkey

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).

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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

Language, Philosophy & Science

Broadcast News

Wires

Newspapers

PR Links

Taxpayers Choking on Detroit's Free Market Malarkey

Monday, November 17th, 2008

So Detroit wants a bailout. Wonderful. The question is, why?
Yeah, they’re waving the red flag of economic catastrophe to blackmail taxpayers and steamroll Congress. But let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and review the industry’s recalcitrance over the past few decades before we bite off a big chunk of what they’re now selling.
Detroit […]

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