The best PR Spin Doctoring you've ever seen

IvaBigWun

Im no fan of his but you have to give cudos to Simon Cowell with how his departure from American TV was handled yesterday.

At round 7pm our time stories started filtering through that he's leaving X Factor USA to focus on his new baby with his missus (stop sniggering! ) and to return to X Factor UK. Cue many online asking "who will replace him on X Factor USA?"

Then two hours later this story comes out that the American version of the show is cancelled (due to his departure for home) and his very lucrative deal with Fox is over. When the truth of it was the show had slipped to just 6 million viewers in the States, absolutely dire for its timeslot.

Another example; Political; In the United States, public affairs dealing with U.S. military contacts during the beginning of the War in Iraq used a spin tactic. Many parts of U.S. military wanted to hire public relations firms to send out made up or misleading information to get a rise in the public approval of the war.

And a final political example was the recent headline (and AH thread title) that screamed; "The US unemployment rate is plummeting (now 6.6%!)" when in fact, on closer inspection, the facts came out that "the participation rate in the labor force is at its lowest since 1978. A shocking 62.8%. For example 347,000 people left the labor force in the month of december alone (if you give up looking for work you are not counted in the Unemployment statistics)"

PR spin at its best/worst.

So be it celebs, politics or whatever, what's the best PR Spin Doctoring you've ever seen?

MadsL

Dav explaining why he broke boards.

sock puppet

The US jobs report was pretty roundly seen as bad news. Hardly a good example of spin

Eggonyerface

Malcolm tucker

The Master

WMDs in Iraq

Donkey Oaty

West Germany's Bild newspaper printed a false account of how the East German leader Erich Honecker had died. When he issued a statement denying the story, they lead with - not, "Sorry, we were wrong..." but this, from memory:

HONNECKER ALIVE - AND READS BILD.

wazky

That the property tax was actually destined for local councils not ze Germans.

Or is that just an outright lie?

MadsL

That turf cutters cut turf by hand whilst a tin whistle echoes across the bog.

SamAK

'Scrap the Seanad, save 20 million'

IvaBigWun

sock puppet wrote: »

The US jobs report was pretty roundly seen as bad news. Hardly a good example of spin

Its a great example of spin.

The headline screamed something very different story to the truth within. To anyone who was just giving AH, Reddit or whatever a quick scroll that day (as many do) they'd have thought that the States had recovered phenomenally well

Hande hoche!

The bad press over the calorie content of king size chocolate bars, someone in marketing came up with the duo concept.
Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItMX-WmaX4

ringadingding

Once I was our drinking all night, by the time I was getting home, the bakeries were open, I walzed into the bakery by the gaff, drunk n starving I bought one of everything and went home to face the music.

Walked in the house laden down with pastries, baguettes etc

Just as I walk in the front door, the wife comes out all sleepy headed still, the kids wake up.

Quick as a flash, I was like
" couldn't sleep, popped out to get us all breakfast, put the kettle on, I'm just gonna shower"

Got away with it too

Simon ain't all that

WilyCoyote

And a final political example was the recent headline (and AH thread title) that screamed; "The US unemployment rate is plummeting (now 6.6%!)" when in fact, on closer inspection, the facts came out that "the participation rate in the labor force is at its lowest since 1978. A shocking 62.8%. For example 347,000 people left the labor force in the month of december alone (if you give up looking for work you are not counted in the Unemployment statistics)"

Can you elaborate a little bit on this please?

Fred Swanson

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IvaBigWun

WilyCoyote wrote: »

And a final political example was the recent headline (and AH thread title) that screamed; "The US unemployment rate is plummeting (now 6.6%!)" when in fact, on closer inspection, the facts came out that "the participation rate in the labor force is at its lowest since 1978. A shocking 62.8%. For example 347,000 people left the labor force in the month of december alone (if you give up looking for work you are not counted in the Unemployment statistics)"

Can you elaborate a little bit on this please?

Sure http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88886264

gugleguy

Ireland as the underdogs won out over Wales. First time in this 6 nations campaign I heard Ireland were underdogs to Wales.

sock puppet

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Its a great example of spin.

The headline screamed something very different story to the truth within. To anyone who was just giving AH, Reddit or whatever a quick scroll that day (as many do) they'd have thought that the States had recovered phenomenally well

Wait you mean it was spin by whoever started the thread? I haven't heard any news outlet even try to present the january report as good news. How on earth can that be spin?

edit: the quote from the whitehouse

Today’s report is another reminder of both the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain. Businesses have now added 8.5m jobs over the last 47 months and the unemployment rate ticked down to its lowest level in more than five years. But the economy is still healing from the Great Recession and steps are still needed to expand economic opportunity.”

That's a halfhearted attempt to put a positive slant on things by taking at best. Not an example of some genius spin doctoring.

corkgsxr

That ireland jobs situation is improving

Banjo String

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Thank the Lord we could always rely on the British Govt/army and Loyalist (political and paramilitary) groups to set the record straight.

Eh Fred?

Paddy Cow

Joan Burton painting Jobbridge as a huge success.

Stavros Murphy

"Our way, not Frankfurts way!"
"Property Tax is immoral, in my opinion"
"Not another cent!"

Pretty spinny right there. Go FG/Labour.

SeaFields

Carbon taxes

snubbleste

Comical Ali of Iraq
Jamie whathisname doing the daily NATO press briefings during Bosnia war
Any Israeli IDF press release
Any property piece in the Irish media

Hande hoche!

snubbleste wrote: »

Comical Ali of Iraq
Jamie whathisname doing the daily NATO press briefings during Bosnia war
Any Israeli IDF press release
Any property piece in the Irish media

The lad doing the Libyan government announcements during Gaddafi's fall was quite something.

corkgsxr

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Joan Burton painting Jobbridge as a huge success.

Its brilliant we can all be tire fitters.

SeaFields wrote: »

Carbon taxes

Mm grand excuse for a tax hike

jackboy

Pope Francis, excellent at propaganda. He has changed nothing but is seen as a great reformer.

Damien360

Micheal noonan declaring that he wants no delay from insurers after flood defences are put in place. No mention of course when the flood defenses will actually be in place. Kicking the can down the road as usual.

K.Flyer

The week that our government admitted that The Trioka were in town.

Augmerson

corkgsxr wrote: »

That ireland jobs situation is improving

Green shoots.

K.Flyer

Augmerson wrote: »

Green shoots.

Nah.. looks like mould to me!

keano_afc

Yes for Lisbon.
Yes for Jobs.

calanus

Hande hoche! wrote: »

The bad press over the calorie content of king size chocolate bars, someone in marketing came up with the duo concept.
Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItMX-WmaX4

Its Philomena Cunk

IvaBigWun

sock puppet wrote: »

Wait you mean it was spin by whoever started the thread? I haven't heard any news outlet even try to present the January report as good news. How on earth can that be spin?

It must have been the first example Ive ever seen of Boards creating spin so