{"id":4869,"date":"2006-06-14T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/06\/14\/unspining-the-spin\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:22:45","slug":"unspining-the-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/06\/unspining-the-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspining the spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">When I saw the The National Catholic Reporter&#8217;s piece yesterday called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/natcath.com\/NCR_Online\/archives2\/2006b\/061606\/061606w.htm\">Spin without end in abuse scandal<\/a>&quot; which was a response to an ad by the Catholic League I thought the title to be pretty ironic considering the heavy spin of their article. I knew Gerald would be quite capable of evaluating NCR&#8217;s spin since he has done yeoman&#8217;s work in evaluating and displaying the data from the John Jay study on the subject. <a href=\"http:\/\/closedcafeteria.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/spinning-out-of-control-at-ncr.html\">He does not disappoint<\/a> and shows the contrast between the  raw data from the report compared to the  very cherry-picked data NCR used. He also makes some good distinctions and I believe clearly shows that it is the NCR which is involved in spin control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the The National Catholic Reporter&#8217;s piece yesterday called &quot;Spin without end in abuse scandal&quot; which was a response to an ad by the Catholic League I thought&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}