So much for the no-spin zone

If you’re at all media savvy, you know that the moment someone utters the phrase “no spin,” get ready for anything but. (Kind of the same way anyone who uses the word “classy” usually isn’t.) So after watching former Pentagon Communications chief Torie Clarke hawk her book—Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game—on The Daily Show, yesterday’s  report  came as no surprise. According to the GAO, public relations spending increased to $88 million in 2004 from $39 million in 2000, an 128 percent uptick.