Libel? Crap. Please erase my comments for the past year, O Spin Thicket gods. Thank you.
This is Spin Thicket.
The operating premise of Spin Thicket is that we live in a Spin-Eat-Spin World.
What do we mean by a Spin-Eat-Spin World?
ONE: Life is not objective. History is written by the winners.
TWO: Journalism -- the news -- is the first, rough draft of history.
THREE: Every day, by means sometimes obvious but often insidious, self-interested corporations, politicians, celebrities and others battle to determine what is news and how that news is interpreted.
The result of this daily hand-to-hand combat dictates who will dominate tomorrow's news -- and ultimately, who will write your children's, and their children's, history books.
This is what passes for news today.
This is Spin Thicket.