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Welcome to SpinProfiles
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Welcome to SpinProfiles—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR. Spinprofiles is a project of Spinwatch and several other organisations. (More about SpinProfiles here)
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SpinProfiles Portals
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Alcohol | Foodspin | GM Watch | Israel Lobby | Lobbying | MEPedia | Neoconservatives | Northern Ireland | Nuclear Spin | Pharma | Propaganda | Scotland | Spooks | Terror Expertise | Water
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SpinProfiles documents the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and the public relations industry engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SpinProfiles also includes profiles on think tanks, front groups funded by industry and industry-friendly experts who work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of transnational corporations or other special interests.
SpinProfiles focuses on transparency issues by profiling and cataloging the activities of lobbyists, lobbying firms and other corporate lobby groups.
Propaganda in war and peace and the activities of states in deceptive communications and special interest lobbying is also a focus with major collections of articles on British propaganda, the theory and practice of counterinsurgency, the neoconservatives, the Israel lobby and the terror experts and the associated terrorism industry, which do so much to distort public policy in the 'war on terror'. SpinProfiles also documents the propaganda, disinformation, and covert action activities of states, intelligence agencies, and their associated networks.
SpinProfiles has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by an editor and several associate portal editors.
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New pages on Spinprofiles
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Popular articles
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To see which pages are most read check the list of most popular pages on SpinProfiles. To see the pages which do not exist but are most wanted by SpinProfiles users see the Most Wanted pages. The Priority profiles page lists organisations that SpinProfiles users would like contributors to help with.
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Getting Started
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Looking for somewhere to start?
We welcome new contributors to SpinProfiles. In order to contribute, you first need to register as a User.
- Go to http://spinwatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki_spinwatch.org and subscribe to the Users' email list. This will enable you to receive group emails from other Users in SpinProfiles.
- Send an email to editor AT spinprofiles.org saying who you are and what your interests are. Once you are approved as a User you will be sent a User name and password to enable you to log in and edit or contribute material.
- Before contributing to SpinProfiles, please read For All Contributors - Read This First.
If you are unsure where to start, you could expand some of the recently created but currently brief articles. If you look at the recent changes page you will see some noted as being 'stubs' - articles that may just be a line or two and needing to be fleshed out. So if you would like to add to some of those you would be most welcome.
There is an automatically updated page which includes the pages which have been signaled by SpinProfiles Users as most wanted. In addition there is a page which includes a list of Things you can do to help.
Or if you would like some other suggestions closer to your interests you could drop SpinProfiles editor David Miller an email at editor AT spinprofiles.org
Research and Writing Tips
How to research front groups | Resources for studying propaganda | Research using the web
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Spinprofiles history
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SpinProfiles is a collaborative venture initiated by Spinwatch in collaboration with Lobbywatch, GM Watch Red Star Research and Corporate Watch, but put into effect by a wide variety of volunteers and independent researchers.
Contributors are now working on 19,493 articles.
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Disclaimer: SpinProfiles is an encyclopedia of people, issues and groups shaping the public agenda. It is a project of the Spinwatch—email editor AT spinprofiles.org.
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