Two weeks ago, my former Santa Clara journalism professor Barbara Kelley posted on her blog about a new tool called Spinspotter, www.spinspotter.com.
The tool works by giving you, the user, the power to mark with red highlights anything in news articles that looks like spin using “spinoculars.” You give the “biased” passages a rating from 1 [...]
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October 4, 2008
Spinspotter: Good idea, badly executed
August 27, 2008
The predictability of the pundits
For the past two nights of the convention, we’ve changed the channel in my house a couple minutes after Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton’s speeches to see what the folks at Fox News had to say. Even if you didn’t watch it, you can guess what happened.
The first night, it was about how the whole [...]
