From: Keith Elis (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 21:09:55 MDT
Lee Corbin:
> I don't really know what they mean by "News without the
> Spin". A spinster is someone who interprets the news in a
> particular direction, adding "spin". So if they mean that
> they don't have an excess of conservatives interpreting the
> news and adding a rightward spin, then they're not telling
> the truth. But if they mean merely that while reporting the
> news itself, it comes without any inherent bias (that is,
> listening one cannot tell if it's coming from a conservative
> or (American) liberal), then that's a separate claim. I
> couldn't swear that the *news* portion is unbiased; it
> probably is biased.
'Spin' is a journalistic term for the reinterpretation of events that
occurs routinely in politics by *politicians*. O'Reilly's slogan simply
means that (he thinks) he is stripping this spin away and presenting the
facts as they are. The facts, in his case, are of course always in favor
of a conservative viewpoint, but that's another matter.
Keith
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