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Spin Cycle

Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine

by Howard Kurtz

ISBN: 0684852314
ISBN-13: 9780684852317
Format: Hardcover

Summary

A "Washington Post" reporter provides an inside story of the ongoing media manipulation in political reporting.

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"Kurtz, one of the country's most respected media critics, does a comprehensive job of reporting a year in the life of the White House spin machine." -- Richard S. Dunham

-- Business Week

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 324

Publisher's Notes

In Spin Cycle Howard Kurtz reveals the inside workings of Clinton's well-oiled propaganda machine - arguably the most successful team of White House spin doctors in history. He takes the reader into closed-door meetings where Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Mike McCurry, Lanny Davis, and other top officials plot strategy to beat back the scandals and neutralize a hostile press corps through stonewalling, stage managing, and outright intimidation. He depicts a White House obsessed with spin and pulls back the curtain on events and tactics that the administration would prefer to keep hidden, including the secret report that Hillary Clinton ordered on a reporter investigating the Whitewater affair as part of a plan to discredit her; a tense, almost paranoid White House atmosphere in which the spinmeisters do not question the President about the various scandals because they don't want to learn information they might have to reveal to prosecutors or the press; the secret meeting between a Clinton operative and the editor of The New York Times that led to a presidential interview in which Clinton knew the questions in advance; Bill Clinton's success in reaping favorable publicity by secretly courting selected reporters and columnists in off-the-record White House meetings; and Al Gore's feelings of betrayal as the scandal-hungry press turned on him and jeopardized his presidential candidacy in 2000.

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