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The Spinsanity.org [6] website has on occasion published insightful commentaries on misleading uses of political rhetoric in the United States. In July 2002, however, Spinsanity itself published a deceptive attack on the media watchdog organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [7] (FAIR). After FAIR criticized U.S. newspapers for applauding the April 2002 attempted military coup against Venezuela's elected president [8], Spinsanity editor Ben Fritz rose to the defense of the newspapers [9]. Spinsanity has published a portion of Fritz's exchange with PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton [10], but Rampton's final response [11] can only be found here.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/international
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/rhetoric
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2002%2F07%2F1296%2Fspinsanitys-inanity&linkname=Spinsanity%27s%20Inanity
[6] http://www.spinsanity.org
[7] http://www.fair.org
[8] http://www.fair.org/press-releases/venezuela-editorials.html
[9] http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020701.html
[10] http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020701-rampton.html
[11] http://www.prwatch.org/spin/spinsanity.html