(Scott Johnson) The late Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss published The Spike in 1980 to expose the power of the media to suppress politically unpalatable stories in the service of covert political interests. The University of Chicago's Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Charles Lipson draws on the metaphor of "the spike" to describe what has happened to the revelations of Monday's Wall Street Journal story reporting the substantial evidence
Source: Power Line