Public Service or War Propaganda?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
In early April, "a public-service advertising campaign began ...
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Playing Public Diplomacy Games
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The U.S. State Department and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication are co-sponsoring a "Reinventing Public Diplomacy Through Games Competition, which seeks to improve America's reputation abroad," reports Wired magazine.
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Big Bad Man in Baghdad
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
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From Russia with Spin
All is not champagne and caviar in Moscow. Pro-Putin political forces are concerned that the West -- particularly the US -- is growing increasingly distant from President Vladmir Putin and the current Russian administration.
White House Damage Control
Submitted by Laura Miller on
"Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration," the National Journal
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As the Worldview Turns
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
With public opinion turning against President Bush, the news media may have also reached a "turning point on Iraq," according to Howard Kurtz.
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You Say 'Influence,' I Say 'Propaganda'
Submitted by Laura Miller on
In an interview with the Washington Post, the Lincoln Group's Paige Craig and Andrew Garfield vaguely discussed the firm's "influence" - not propaganda - work for the U.S. government, with whom they have 12 contracts totaling more than $130 million.
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U.S. Military Has No Problem with Propaganda
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The New York Times reports that the U.S. military's review of a PR firm's covert propaganda program in Iraq, led by Rear Adm. Scott Van Buskirk, has been completed but not made public.
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Words About "Images"
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld actually need the media now more than ever," writes the Columbia Journalism Review's Gal Beckerman. Although the "conventional wisdom ... is that this administration views the press as vampires view garlic," White House criticisms of the media "have become essential to the administration's contention that progress is being made." The effect of this argument, Beckerman writes, is to sugggest that "We're not seeing car bombs ripping entire blocks apart and blowing dozens of Iraqis to bits.
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Sudan Promotes Self to NY Times Readers
Submitted by Laura Miller on
The Government of Sudan -- tired of international media focusing on the country's ongoing genocide -- paid for an upbeat eight-page advertising insert in Monday's New York Times. O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports that Summit Communications prepared the insert which "extols the investment opportunities in the energy-rich state" but "has no rebuttal to United Nations and U.S.
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