Spindoctors spared the budget lash

WE should all be indebted to your columnist Terry Prone for the benefit of her insider definition of Government spin (October 20).

She was giving advice to the Government in relation to the medical card issue but the principles she enunciated have general application and bear repeating.

First the Government should “develop clear, understandable profiles” of whoever it wants to target as its friends and “find real-life examples of them to put on the media”.