Moran Fondly Remembered

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has aired a glowing memorial to Paul Moran, its cameraman who was killed in March by a suicide bomber while filming the war in Iraq. The broadcast features fond recollections from Moran's colleagues, friends and family, while glossing over and rationalizing Moran's work for the Rendon Group, the secretive PR firm that has worked behind the scenes to promote the U.S. foreign interventions in Iraq and elsewhere. "It's true that he was unwittingly involved in, I guess what could be called a propaganda operation in the early 90's, but people must remember he didn't know that," says Zaab Sethna, Moran's colleague at the Iraqi National Congress. But Sethna's comments contradict his own statements made during a previous interview. For the rest of the story, PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton has summarized Back to Iraqsome of the concerns about Moran's relationship with the INC and the Rendon Group on the "Back to Iraq" weblog.