Spinsanity's Inanity [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
The Spinsanity.org [3] website has on occasion published insightful commentaries on misleading uses of political rhetoric in the United States. In July 2002, however, Spinsanity itself published a deceptive attack on the media watchdog organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [4] (FAIR). After FAIR criticized U.S. newspapers for applauding the April 2002 attempted military coup against Venezuela's elected president [5], Spinsanity editor Ben Fritz rose to the defense of the newspapers [6]. Spinsanity has published a portion of Fritz's exchange with PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton [7], but Rampton's final response [8] can only be found here.