on the attempts to engineer perceptions of the debate over the past few days, look here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/po...04spin.html?hp
requires registration, but it is free--the article is three pages long.
irate: listening to bill wattenberg for a couple of years made me wonder about this--for information about the process, look for example here:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.pht..._organizations