Why Nevada's unemployment rate is Obama's fault (according to Sharron Angle)
In a last effort to sway voters, Sharron Angle, the Nevada Republican candidate for Senate, aired this ad:read more
View ArticleYou Spin My Head Right Round
Utah has a reputation for not always putting education at the top of their priorities. Governor Herbert was naturally faced with much criticism on the issue. Peter Corroon who was looking to replace...
View ArticleJack Conway's "Aqua Buddha" Ad
One of the most repulsive and publicized ads of the 2010 election was in the senatorial election in the great state of Kentucky. The Democrat in the race, Jack Conway, ran a TV ad weeks before the...
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Campaign Advertisemetns: Full of Spin
External video: Dale Peterson's 2010 political campaign for Agriculturer Commissioner of Alabama was one built on what Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson would call "spin." Spin to them...
View ArticleUnspun
I thought that somthing that was very interesting in Chapter 2 of Unspun was the concept of scaring people into buying a certain product. I've seen so many commercials on TV where they show before and...
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Unspun
External video: Currently in my AP English class, we are reading a book called Unspun. I find this book very interesting as it goes into detail about a few of the many tricks and tips to misleading...
View ArticleDecoding Politics
Politics is complicated. I have always known this in the back of my mind, but I have been forced to think about it more in the past few weeks thanks to a few different sources, the book Unspun, my...
View ArticleThe Influences of UnSpun
UnSpun is about the strategies that advertisers and politicians today use to draw people into their products or ideas. It is there to help educate people on false advertising so that they don’t get...
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If it's scary be wary theme in our politics today
External video: This is just about often we see the theme of "If it's scary be wary" in our political campaigns today. One of the main tactics for political campaigning is installing a sense of fear...
View ArticleUnspinning the truth
recently after finishing the book unspun i watched the first presidential debate between Romney and Obama. Each politician was trying to put his own spin on the topic to make the other look bad. I...
View ArticleThe Difficulty of Staying Unspun
After reading Unspun by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, I realized how prevalent spin is in our world. We can't get away from it and it would be near impossible to sort through all of it....
View ArticleUn-Spun?
I recently read two books that I just can't seen to get out of my mind. The two books are "Unspun" by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the other being "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell. Both...
View ArticleUnspun- A battle between good and evil
Well, on account of the fact that i receive a grade in my English class for posting a certain number of discussions on this confounded site, I must strike up a few interesting points on a book my class...
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Can we have politics without spin
After reading the book UnSpun I was wondering if we could have a functioning political system without spin. One of the points in the book was misnomers. An example from 2013 of a misnomer would be...
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Are you being decieved?
External video: In my English class, we just finished reading "Unspun" by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Jamieson. This book helps you to become aware if you are being deceived by ADs, products, and...
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