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In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through knowingly providing a biased interpretation of an event or campaigning to influence public opinion about some organization or public figure.
Political spin, in politics, the attempt to control or influence communication in order to deliver one’s preferred message. Spin is a pejorative term often used in the context of public relations practitioners and political communicators.
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Aug 14, 2018 · Spin is a contemporary term for a form of propaganda that relies on deceptive methods of persuasion . In politics, business, and elsewhere, spin is often characterized by exaggeration, euphemisms, inaccuracies, half-truths, and excessively emotional appeals .
- Richard Nordquist
- The leak: Releasing information only to a favorite journalist or about a particular issue.
- The freeze: Punishing journalists for negative reporting. “Trump was famous for the banning journalists from press conferences,” Fisher said. But many other presidents froze journalists out more subtly.
- The spray: Bullying and intimidation, trying to punish journalists for negative coverage. “The term ‘fake news,’ the way [Trump] leveled that at the news media, calling them ‘enemy of the people’ is a good example of that.”
- The drip: The act of keeping favorite journalists on a drip of exclusive information.
Feb 9, 2016 · Spin may be infuriating, but it’s rarely effective on its own. And it may not be so bad for us. The use of rhetoric to sell ideas, warfare, or policies has been an essential part of governance since leaders wore togas instead of Brooks Brothers.
Jan 25, 2016 · Someone is spinning spin by seeking to convince us that the predictable pronouncements of political hacks-for-hire are good for democracy. The obvious inauthenticity of focus-group-tested spin...
Jan 31, 2016 · We think of political spin as a modern-day phenomena. The phrase conjures up images of dark-suited politicians on TV sparring with journalists intent on getting the truth. But long before we were yelling at the talking heads on our TVs, Plato and Socrates were tearing apart the ancient equivalent of spin: rhetoric.
