Today's media world is dominated by a legion of spin doctors whose job it is to feed you, the news consumer, a package labelled "the truth." Spin doctors abound in today's media world, from the pundits whose interpretations you read with your morning coffee to the lobbyists whose voices preach on the evening's 11:00 o'clock news. In a world where the facts are manipulated in order to fit a pre-set corporate agenda, where does the truth stand Spinwars.ca is the story of how the spin doctors got out of control. By tracing the delicate relationship between media and politics over the last 50 years, Fox identifies key events that have radically affected the balance between the third and fourth estates. From corporatization to television, from pundits to celebrity journalism, spinwars.ca reveals the truth about the spin doctors who have broken free of their boundaries and overturned the system. Spinwars.ca, however, is not a bad news story because a solution is at hand. New media is currently emerging that, Fox predicts, will rectify the balance between politics and journalism - the Internet. The largely anarchic force of the world wide web is presently revolutionizing the way news is presented, by creating, in effect, a fifth estate - a digital estate, the implications of which we are only now beginning to realize. spinwars.ca is a fascinating journey through the last 50 years of press and politics in North America, as well as an important examination into what the future will hold.

Bill Fox, a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto, is a former Ottawa and Washington bureau chief of the Toronto Star and served as director of communications for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

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