Spin Detector Gifts

"Are these 'raw' facts or 'spun' facts?"

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"Excellent, excellent. A fine blend of truths, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods."

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

'Congratulations on your 100% plant-based diet. I'm referring you to a botanist.'

Danae's Career Plans: 'The major product manufactured today is punditry, so I'm honing my argumentative skills to work my way to the top of the blow hard industry..my goal is to become a spin ninja...'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

CONGRESS, 'No, no, you don't HAVE to fool all of the people all of the time - you just need to CONFUSE them!'

"What's important is that we learn from what we must never admit happened."

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"We're looking for the kind of bad taste that will grab - but not appall."

'That's the new guy. He writes our 'shuck-and-jive' press releases.'

"Getting drunk grilling lettuce just isn't the same."

'It has been revealed that a senior politician will criticise something in a speech. Later they will criticise the opposite of something, just in case.'

A boy and his spin patrol.

Un-Truth

Chinese History: Redwash

The Truth

'It's getting harder to tell when the news stops and the spin begins.'

"There sits the unvarnished truth. Now, how shall we interpret it to our advantage?"

'Your job, Richards, is to make sure that my name never appears in a headline alongside the word 'siphoned.''

Musical Bicycle.

Have our P.R. people do a report on the beneficial effects of cyanide on river life.

"Prospectus in not spelt P...R...O...A...G...A...N...D...A."

"Your job will be to make these results look Stellar."

"Three years running 'fake news' websites? You're just what we're looking for!"

"Here are today's political campaign numbers: spin is up 10%, truth is down 5%, flip flops up 20%..."

"I work in PR where I provide a dynamic and highly effective bespoke service that can work for you and blah blah blah ..."

Office of the PR of the United States

"And that's the way we want you to think it is."

"I just spoon-fed the media a pound of really old salmon."

'When I said I was going to resign my contract, I meant re-sign my contract for another five years!'

"Whatever the results you get from an election it's important to be able to present them in the best possible light..."