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The Sun Shines on My Book
The New York Sun (which I’ve seen Tina Brown reading before, so hey) today has a little item on the party for the new book I’ve co-authored, All the President’s Spin (for those of you playing along at home, it’s due out on Tuesday, and you can order it now from Amazon.com).
Here’s the item, from the Knickerbocker column (no free links, sadly):
SPIN CYCLE Brendan Nyhan is a Duke University graduate student. Bryan Keefer is assistant managing editor of Columbia Journalism’s Review’s Campaign Desk, which monitors the press’s coverage of politics. Along with their friend Ben Fritz, who works in Los Angeles for Variety magazine, they are editors of the web site Spinsanity.com, a nonpartisan watchdog web site devoted to analyzing political spin and fact-checking the press from a non-partisan perspective.
The authors told the Knickerbocker that Spinsanity.com does not focus on bias, which is “speculation about motives,” but rather examines rhetorical devices in the press and looks for distortions of facts. The web site is adept at examining why mainstream press is so ineffective at countering political spin, and how surprising formats such as political satire, ideological press outlets, and web logs can break through the spin.
They have co-authored the book “All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth” (Touchstone). While the book does scrutinize both sides of the aisle, it mainly criticizes the Bush Administration for spin, strategically ambiguous language, and half-truths.
Messrs. Nyhan and Keefer were on hand on Tuesday at a book party atop the Gramercy Park Hotel, where a crowd came out to fete them. MediaTank, a group of young professionals in the television, film, and entertainment industries, sponsored the event. MediaTank was founded last year and this was its first large event.
Seen wereTouchstone/Fireside senior publicist Lisa Sciambra, Amy Paul, development director of Alliance Agency; Court TV publicist Barry Rosenberg, and MediaTank president Dan Shear, who works at the William Morris Agency.
The room was filled with 20- and 30-somethings who conduct business on the phone but seldom get to meet each other. They’re the ones who may be running the show, so to speak, in a decade or two.
- July 30, 2004
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