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October 22, 2004

Dismal anniversary

Twenty years ago, the term ‘spin doctor' made its public debut in the pages of the New York Times. Rodney Tiffen deplores the inexorable growth of spin doctoring in a piece on Australian Policy Online. (http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=00920). He says while spin doctor is a term everybody uses, no one owns up to being one. Tiffen is also sceptical about the "howls of protests from journalists about the pernicious influence of spin doctors". If journalists did their job properly, he says, spin doctors would not be able to do theirs as well as they currently do. Posted by belinda at October 22, 2004 01:48 PM
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