Moran Fondly Remembered [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
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 [3], 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 [4]. But Sethna's comments contradict his own statements [5] made during a previous interview. For the rest of the story, PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton has summarized Back to Iraq [6]some of the concerns about Moran's relationship with the INC and the Rendon Group on the "Back to Iraq" weblog.