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Here is a link to a site I recently stumbled across. First their description of what they are about followed by an example from the section they call spin of the day.

PR Watch offers investigative reporting on the public relation industry. We help the public recognize manipulative and misleading PR practices by exposing the activities of secretive little-known propaganda-for-hire firms that work to control polictical debates and public opinion.

CBS news anchor Dan Rather said in an interview with British television that "patriotism run amok" was keeping American journalists from ask tough questions about the "war on terrorism." Rather even admitted that he himself had participated in self-censorship following September 11. "You know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck," he said. "Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions." Source: The Guardian (UK), May 17, 2002