A great article on the spin surrounding the campaign against Tom Daschle from Spinsanity. The focus here is on the regular citizens on the Internet post-boards and how they absorb and spit out the rhetoric of the pundits. A quote from the end:

"The pervasiveness of this type of spin in online discussions - arguably some of the most open forums for political discussions today - provides disturbing evidence of how effective these techniques have been in undermining rational political debate at every level"

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Caught The O'Reilly Factor last night on Fox news having read the article on the "Bully Boys" in Vanity Fair this month. Coincidentally, O'Reilly had on the columnist, James Wolcott, who wrote the piece to give him "the heat". I thought Wolcott did a good job of showing how O'Reilly is exactly as was characterized in the column, although I didn't think he jumped on every bit of nonsense O'Reilly was spewing at him. At the same time I deride O'Reilly, I must also praise him for as I flipped around during his show to CNN and CNBC, his was the only show not covering the Chandra Levy case for the entire half-hour. Salon has a piece on just how orchestrated the whole thing has become and last night was great evidence of this.
- posted by levinson @ 7/10/2001 09:00:00 AM