Tom Bevan’s Fantasy World Of Spin

4:36 pm EST August 17th, 2006 | Media | 2 Comments

I don’t accept the coverage from any media source as 100% truth. Invariably omissions and additions can totally change the thrust of a piece in one direction or another, but the tactic Tom Bevan takes in this piece for Real Clear Politics is pretty laughable. Bevan argues that in order to counter the relentless spin of the New York Times, he looks to the words of  an an administration flack and an army flack.

This is the kind of mindset that aids in the success of publications like Fox News, especially among conservatives. They don’t look for numerous sources of information, weighing the various motivations of each source. They just want spin. It’s not “tell me what you think and I’ll consider it”, it’s “tell me what to think because I’m too dumb to make up my own mind”.

Ironically, this is the same kind of thinking that you saw in Pravda in Soviet Russia.

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2 Responses to “Tom Bevan’s Fantasy World Of Spin”

  1. Aghast says:
    August 17, 2006 at 7:09 pm

    Just one more example of a right-wing authoritarian follower in action.

  2. Jay says:
    August 18, 2006 at 9:11 am

    I don’t accept the coverage from any media source as 100% truth.

    You do when it agrees with your point of view.

    Negative coverage of the war in Iraq? 100% correct!

    Positive coverage of the war in Iraq? Total nonsense.

    They don’t look for numerous sources of information, weighing the various motivations of each source.

    Oh like the two people quoted in the article who don’t want to go on the record?

    Stunning. The information provided by people who are actually there is bogus because they are just two “flacks.”

    Yet the words of NY Times reporters sitting in Washington are 100% correct because two anonymous sources say so?

    You’re the one operating on the “tell me what to think” level, not Bevan.