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To: DMaA who wrote (15615)	11/8/2003 1:06:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793670

"Spinning" is always taken as a pejorative. Perhaps on worldnet.com or Fox it is. I come from an environment where it isn't. Spinning or framing or arraying or laying out--all part of any effort at persuasion. Every time you fail to ask "which do you want first, the good news or the bad?" and choose for them, you're spinning. Every time Bill precedes one of his posted articles with a brief comment, he's spinning. He's setting us up to look at the article in a certain way. This is what google came up with: he noun "spin" has 5 senses in WordNet. 1. spin -- (a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)) 2. spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl -- (the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting") 3. spin -- (a short drive in a car; "he took the new car for a spin") 4. tailspin, spin -- (rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral) 5. spin -- (a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion); "the campaign put a favorable spin on the story") cogsci.princeton.edu Still, I take your point and the AP writer should have known better. Re the Arab on the street, we'll have a better sense of that when we see more comments from the ME over the next few days.