"If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it."
--Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the United States and Canada
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The former chief investigator of Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee said that "intelligence has been used as a 'PR tool' since Tony Blair came to power." During 1998's Operation Desert Fox in Iraq, "I was under pressure and my analysts were under pressure," said John Morrison.
The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraqby Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
U.S. publisher: Tarcher/Penguin. July 28, 2003
Bookstore price: $11.95 U.S. / $17.99 Canada
ISBN 1-58542-276-2
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PR pro Gordon James recently returned from Iraq, where he was Director of Advance and Special Events in the Coalition Provisional Authority's Office of Strategic Communications. "We were highlighting Ambassador Bremer's work, trying to get a positive media spin," he told PR Week.
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"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush," journalist Ron Suskind writes. "He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
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"Can a journalist be too truthful?" That's a question that some media pundits are asking after Farnaz Fassihi, the Wall Street Journal's Middle East correspondent, sent a private email to friends with an unusually candid description of the deteriorating U.S. control over Iraq and the dangers of doing her job there. A copy of her email began circulating on the internet. "One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation," she wrote.
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The Feminist Majority Foundation has objected to the U.S. Department of State's decision to award part of a $10 million grant to an anti-feminist group, the Independent Women's Forum for "leadership training, democracy education and coalition building assistance" to women in Iraq. The IWF, which was created initially to defend Clarence Thomas against charges of sexual harassment during his U.S.
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MarketingSherpa, a weblog for PR professionals, has posted a job announcement from the NettResults PR firm, which operates throughout the Middle East as well as in Africa, Asia and East Europe. The company is seeking someone to "serve as one of the three key contact for the Multi-National Corps - Iraq (MNC-I) media team promoting development and aid news/events in-country to the Iraqi population. ... Ideal candidate speaks Arabic and has 8-10 yrs exper.
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The major PR contract for the Multi National Corps-Iraq was awarded to Iraqex, a "business clearinghouse company formed specifically to provide a swath of services in the war-torn country." The Washington DC-based Lincoln Alliance Corporation, a "business 'intelligence' company that handles services from 'political campaign intelligence' to comm
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