08-21-2010, 10:12 PM
Hey CL:
Granted, The President's Press Sec does make reference to a "professional left." However, the core theme of my intial response to your post is that yeah, OK, there are professionals on both side of the aisle who spin the press to their perspective.
The left does this, the right does the same through such media outlets as FOX NEWS demonstrated by my above links where FOX NEWS owner Rupert Murdoch recently gave a cool $1 million to the Republican Governor's Association to "spin" the news and PR to win Republican gubanatorial seats this November.
So what else is new?? This is the way politics is done these days. I am not saying I totally agree with all of the techniques deployed, but IT is the way it is right now.
Going further, corporate, for-profit entities long have had PR firms and/or PR specilists on the payroll to "SPIN" into the media stories/events to obtain customers and brand loyalties (called MARKETING). Even non-partisan, not-for-profit entities hire PR firms and/or have PR specialists on the payroll now to "SPIN" the news to create events to obtain funds and support.
For instance, this very evening, The Waukegan Public Library Foundation is holding a "Starry Night" event for a "donation" of $50 a head.
For what? To tour a number of private homeside gardens throughout the city where parts of various novels will be read with themed hors d'oeuvres to raise money for libary improvements.
Now classy invitions were sent out, this has been covered in the local media, and the Waukegan Public Library has a full-time PR Director paid to co-ordinate such events and "spin" news and to obtain support for the libary.
So all of this is done in a number of venues all the time, sometimes for candidates/political perspectives/venues that some of us may support, while others of us may not support.
Concern I have here is your presentation would have us believe just the "radical left" that is engaged in such activities.
CONTRARE !! So let's hear the full-story here, CL .. not just a one-way reportage of the news.
-- WT Reader
Granted, The President's Press Sec does make reference to a "professional left." However, the core theme of my intial response to your post is that yeah, OK, there are professionals on both side of the aisle who spin the press to their perspective.
The left does this, the right does the same through such media outlets as FOX NEWS demonstrated by my above links where FOX NEWS owner Rupert Murdoch recently gave a cool $1 million to the Republican Governor's Association to "spin" the news and PR to win Republican gubanatorial seats this November.
So what else is new?? This is the way politics is done these days. I am not saying I totally agree with all of the techniques deployed, but IT is the way it is right now.
Going further, corporate, for-profit entities long have had PR firms and/or PR specilists on the payroll to "SPIN" into the media stories/events to obtain customers and brand loyalties (called MARKETING). Even non-partisan, not-for-profit entities hire PR firms and/or have PR specialists on the payroll now to "SPIN" the news to create events to obtain funds and support.
For instance, this very evening, The Waukegan Public Library Foundation is holding a "Starry Night" event for a "donation" of $50 a head.
For what? To tour a number of private homeside gardens throughout the city where parts of various novels will be read with themed hors d'oeuvres to raise money for libary improvements.
Now classy invitions were sent out, this has been covered in the local media, and the Waukegan Public Library has a full-time PR Director paid to co-ordinate such events and "spin" news and to obtain support for the libary.
So all of this is done in a number of venues all the time, sometimes for candidates/political perspectives/venues that some of us may support, while others of us may not support.
Concern I have here is your presentation would have us believe just the "radical left" that is engaged in such activities.
CONTRARE !! So let's hear the full-story here, CL .. not just a one-way reportage of the news.
-- WT Reader