Making Spiders Dizzy

An opinion piece in USA today is titled Pentagon Spin Taints TV. I find any article where the media thinks it is being out spun a must read. After all, when the wolf starts crying wolf, you want to get a good laugh at their serpentine logic. And yes, they have a few facts and some money changing hands but all in all it is an attempt to point a finger at the military's attempt to spread good news about the Iraq War.

I know, I had a good laugh at that one. If the media had in any instance not taken the news from Iraq and used it to show the military and George Bush in a bad light, I would find the opinion piece remotely credible. But the media takes every opportunity to use even good news to further their agenda that George Bush and Dick Cheney are using the military to line the pockets of their rich cronies and ensure that the poor and disenfranchised are being sent into harms way. At least they were able to catch on major liberal talking head, Dan Rather, in a lie to discredit the President.

So we have the media accusing the Pentagon of spreading good news about what is going on in Iraq. I would not call it spin if what they are saying is an attempt to counter the stream of bad news being generated by the media. After all a fact is just a piece of information. It is the adjectives that we use to convey that fact that provide the ability to spin it. What may be great news on the war can be turned into an attack, just by the way it is reported. I can see why it is called yellow journalism. I just can't figure out why there aren't brown streaks running down the page.

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