Spin Cycle Radio
Frequently unusual brief commentary and analysis about the media and politics.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Episodes
- 19
- Years Active
- 2006
Buying a Legacy
Aired 12/03/06 Buying a Legacy week the news came out that Bush was preparing to start fundraising for his presidental library and was planning on raising five hundred million dollars. The announceme…
Mon 04 Dec 2006
What is it?
Aired 12/01/06 What is it? This week NBC became the first major media channel in the US to make an editorial decision to call the situation in Iraq a civil war. (Fox by comparison on Friday issued an…
Sat 02 Dec 2006
A Big Week
Aired 11/27/06 A Big Week On Sunday the War in Iraq passed the duration of our involvement in World War 2. And the first week past that threshold looks to be a very significant one, with reports, sum…
Wed 29 Nov 2006
Public and Private
Aired 11/24/06 Public and Private The Decision by Rupert Murdoch's media empire to drop the OJ Simpson hypothetical-tell-all book and interview was seen as his finally having pushed the envelope of t…
Wed 29 Nov 2006
The Imp of the Perverse
Aired 11/17/06 The Imp of the Perverse What on earth is OJ thinking? What makes him want to give what clearly everybody is going to regard as a detailed confession? It reminded me of a short story fr…
Sat 18 Nov 2006
Catching the Car
Aired 11/17/06 Catching the Car While the War in Iraq is certainly the big picture issue of the midterm elections there will certainly be no easy solution and no obviously good one. So I believe that…
Sat 18 Nov 2006
Clark or Melvin
Aired 11/10/06 Clark or Melvin The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld was a big story, but perhaps the real question is what does Bush expect from his successor? I example this question using the two men…
Sun 12 Nov 2006
Riding the Swing
Aired 11/10/06 Riding the Swing What to make of the Democratic takeover in the midterm election? There will undoubtedly be as many answers as there are pundits. My initial take; It shows that despite…
Sun 12 Nov 2006
Sin
Aired 11/3/06 Sin The story of Ted Haggard captures the media and audiences because nothing quite grabs the public like an ironic comeuppance. But the whole coverage, and people's reaction, maked it …
Tue 07 Nov 2006
What I'm Tired Of.
Aired 11/3/06 What I'm Tired Of As this midterm election drags itself toward a 2.6 billion dollar finish line I thought I would sum up with a bit of a rant about what I find most annoying about the e…
Tue 07 Nov 2006
Voting your Basolateral Amygdala
Aired 10/30/06 Voting your Basolateral Amygdala One of the latest ads by the Republican National Committee doesn't try to tell you why they will be better or the Democrats worse. It doesn't actually …
Mon 30 Oct 2006
Stay the Stay
Aired 10/27/06 Stay the Stay In a month where over one hundred US soldiers will be killed the huge political debate this month is over the words "Stay the Course". But "Stay the Course" isn't a strat…
Mon 30 Oct 2006
Deja-Vu All Over Again
Aired 10/13/06 Deja-Vu All Over Again (with apologies to Yogi Bera)Spin Cycle began as a set of voter registration/turnout pieces, so it has been something of a pattern to always to a set of analysis…
Sat 21 Oct 2006
Shooting for the Moon
Aired 10/13/06 Shooting for the Moon Spin Cycle began as a set of voter registration/turnout pieces, so it has been something of a pattern to always to a set of analysis peices on the Ballot Proposit…
Sat 21 Oct 2006
Tax and Spend
Aired 10/13/06 Tax and Spend Spin Cycle began as a set of voter registration/turnout pieces, so it has been something of a pattern to always to a set of analysis peices on the Ballot Propositions, Be…
Sat 21 Oct 2006
Running Up the Credit Card
Aired 10/13/06 Running up the Credit Card Spin Cycle began as a set of voter registration/turnout pieces, so it has been something of a pattern to always to a set of analysis peices on the Ballot Pro…
Sat 21 Oct 2006
The California Credit Card
Aired 10/6/06 The California Credit Card Spin Cycle began as a set of voter registration/turnout pieces, so it has been something of a pattern to always to a set of analysis peices on the Ballot Prop…
Sat 21 Oct 2006
Studds
Aired 10/16/06 The Original Page Scandal Recently former Massacheusets representative Gerry Studds died. Ironically in the week just before his death his name was again all over the news as conservat…
Sat 21 Oct 2006
Tired of War
Aired 9/29/06 Tired of War We have this tendency in America to want to call everything a war. We have a 'War on Christmas' and an all-encompasing 'Culture War' not to mention the big 'War on Terror'.…
Sun 01 Oct 2006
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