Spin City

I guess some people just can't handle the truth. Case in point is Sony's attempts to put a positive spin on their earlier outrageous statements about the PS3. It turns out that the combination of high prices and lack of a "killer app" for the product has resulted in lackluster sales and a product surplus. In January, one Sony exec tried to deny the existence of a surplus and claimed that demand for their system was so high that he'd pay a $1200 bounty for any unit a consumer found on a store shelf. For his sake, there'd better be a statute of limitations on that offer because I'm seeing them everywhere, including a large stack of them sitting in an aisle at a Best Buy store. I remember a time when, faced with an eroneous claim like that, a reasonable person would say something like, "Yep, they might have been hard to find when we said that, but now you'll have no trouble finding one - enjoy!" However, rather than owning up to the truth, these spinmeisters keep digging a deeper whole for themselves, creating a fantasy world where everything they've said is somehow justified. One begins to wonder where these folks pick up this sort of behavior...