From: "John Beamish" 

The polls?

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:08:55 -0500, Dave Ings  wrote:

> We often talk about spin around here. CBC Radio just broadcast a rather
> interesting (and lengthy - 6 one hour episodes) on the spin doctor
> industry.
> Contains lots of interesting interviews with industry PR people and
> political backroom types. You can download all the episodes here:
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/spincycles/index.html
>
> Oddly enough apparently CBC Radio news hasn't listened to the series.
> Their
> lead story this morning was nothing more than a thinly disguised
> recaptulation of a press release put out by a national lobby group -
> something one of the latter episodes delves into in detail.

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