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Anti-Americanism and the Rise of Civic
Diplomacy
It's not too late
to rescue public diplomacy. To do so, however, requires a
fundamentally different approach. This new strategy must rely
more on the ear than the mouth, more on “second track” rather
than official diplomacy, and more on civic engagement than the
actions of government representatives.
Nancy Snow on Tavis Smiley
You can listen to my
12/05/06 interview on PBS' Tavis Smiley Show about my new book,
The Arrogance of American Power. Read an
article in the Orange County
Register about the interview.
Propaganda vs. Public
Diplomacy
Listen to my 11/27/06
interview on NPR's Chicago affiliate.
Associate Professor of Communications, California State
University in Fullerton; Author,
Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion
Control Since 9/11
Howard Zinn for People's Ambassador of the
United States
State Department
Should Nominate Politically Incorrect Howard Zinn to Help
Michelle Kwan Polish U.S Image! Support my effort to
recognize the enormous contributions Dr. Howard Zinn has made to
free speech, diversity, and dissent, what the federal government
says are American values that need better marketing to the
world. I'm working to get him nominated by the people and
for the people as one of our voices of America not showing up on
the list of nominees at State. Please contact Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice or Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, U.S. Department of
State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520 or e-mail your
reasons for naming Dr. Zinn "The People's Ambassador of the
United States" and I will forward your letter to the State
Department.
American Identity Blog for P.O.V.'s
Borders I'm
guest blogging about all things America, identity, and image
from May-June 2006. Point of View, an award-winning documentary
series for PBS, has commissioned a number of us to offer
perspectives for global interactive dialogue. The entire "Border
Talk" site includes analysis from Keith Reinhard and
Simon Anholt.
The Snow Report
Forecasts in
American Persuasion, Influence and Propaganda.
Public Diplomacy and Strategic
Communication
Excellent paper by
Bruce Gregory, Director of the Public Diplomacy Institute at
George Washington University. The most comprehensive
understanding of U.S. public diplomacy I've read and a superb
analysis of the thirty expert studies published since 9/11.
2005 Advisory Report on Public Diplomacy
A report by the
State-Department advisory board overseeing PubD. Public
diplomacy seeks to convey the truth about American
values, culture and people to the world. Although public
diplomacy has various facets, it is critical to understand its
core goal: to advance policies. Public diplomacy entails
informing, engaging and influencing foreign publics so that they
may, in turn, encourage their governments to support key U.S.
policies. It involves building mutual understanding and
fostering more-favorable attitudes toward the U.S. so that other
peoples near and far are more likely to shake our hands than to
squeeze them. [My note: There is some disagreement about how
much public diplomacy should align itself with existing policies
and when, if ever, it should challenge such policies. The
more people-to-people contact, especially outside the content
control of governments, the more likely challenges to policies
will emerge.]
Identifying Misinformation (US State
Dept.) In
the war of words and images, the U.S. State Department
International Information Program presents this website devoted
to all things misinformation, disinformation and cultural myths.
Fascinating look at our world of true lies.
United States: A Booming Business for
PSYOPS
"While
Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Karen Hughes has been the highest-profile example of U.S. public
relations in action, the Defense Department quietly has been
tinkering with its own systems of overseas influence.
Among these are psychological operations, or PSYOPS."
Jason Vest reports for Government Executive magazine.
Review of Information War in "The
Hindu" (India's National Newspaper), Sunday, September 4, 2005
With propaganda becoming the
chief weapon of control when violent means are unavailable,
black lies, white lies, and double talk are common features of
any democracy...Snow explains how U.S. propaganda efforts and
clandestine operations have grown fast in the last few years."
Public Diplomacy: A Review of Past
Recommendations
This Congressional Research
Service (CRS) report from September 2, 2005 reviews 29 articles
and studies on public diplomacy "identified by the State
Department as being credible reports with valuable suggestions."
In other words, the reports CRS reviewed are U.S-Government
approved and do not address either contested definitions of
public diplomacy or controversial U.S. foreign policy positions.
The most frequently cited recommendation, much touted in my own
writing, is "increase exchanges and/or libraries."
The Gender Gap: Women Are Still Missing
as Sources for Journalists
Excellent report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism,
part of the Columbia University graduate school of journalism.
Men are quoted twice as often as women by news organizations.
On TV, women are sources for network evening news stories just
27% of the time and 19% for cable news stories. Women
consume news in lower numbers than men. This report
suggests that women's invisibility in news sourcing makes them
less apt to utilize news media for information.
'Muslim World Outreach' another recipe for
disaster
Writer Linda S. Heard says, "Rather than spend billions of
American taxpayers' money on policies which do not bring desired
results, winning the region's hearts and minds over time could
be achieved far more simply and cheaply thus: The United States
should seriously work towards the roadmap without pro-Israel
bias."
Hearts, Minds, and Dollars, Part I
U.S. News and World
Report writer David E. Kaplan lays out the U.S. Government's
political warfare strategy, "unmatched since the height of the
Cold War." Read this along with an excellent strategic
global communications analysis by American University professor
of communications, R.S. Zaharna,
The Network Paradigm of Strategic Public
Diplomacy.
The Propaganda Czar from Paris+Texas
American public diplomacy
is presently very much an insider’s and owner’s box seat game
where the rest of us serve as passive observers to the process,
much like those targeted audiences who are presumed to shift
their attitudes and opinions after marinating in pop music and
low intensity news. While Karen Hughes will bring much-needed
F.O.G. (Friend of George) status to the public diplomacy
process, as such a strong insider she may become susceptible to
the programs already in place that have been politically popular
in Washington but not definitively successful overseas.
Check out the PBS Newshour roundtable,
Marketing America, with Karen
Hughes at the helm.
On
the Media
The
March 11, 2005 edition of NPR's weekly media monitor program
presents a discussion, "Persion Persuasion," about U.S.
Farsi-language expansion to Iran. While I wonder if air
strikes may soon follow the information war, Kenneth Tomlinson,
chairman of the
BBG
(Broadcasting Board of Governors), offers another view. He
says these U.S. government broadcast efforts are benign media to
spread democracy and the model of a free press to Iran.
Al Hurra in Europe
Al Hurra launches in Europe and
German media reports.
Seit den Bombenanschlägen am 11.
März vergangenen Jahres auf Vorortzüge in Madrid haben
Geheimdienstexperten mehrfach vor einer wachsenden Gefahr
gewarnt, die von in Europa aufgewachsenen Moslem-Extremisten
ausgehe. Diese fühlten sich von El-Kaida-Chef Osama bin Landen
inspiriert, hieß es. Kritiker bezweifelten indes einen Erfolg
der geplanten Fernsehsendungen. "Ich weiß nicht, wie wirksam das
sein wird. Das Geld könnte aber durch Zusammenarbeit mit den
gemäßigten Führern in der arabischen Welt besser genutzt werden",
sagte Nancy Snow, Propaganda-Expertin der staatlichen
kalifornischen Universität in Fullerton. Here's a link to
the
English
version.
The Language Police
If you need any
more confirmation that America is the numero uno propaganda
nation, look no further than the GOP language meistro Frank
Luntz, who has produced a memorandum of “The 14 Words Never to
Use.” Thanks to the Internet and the blogosphere, we mere
mortals can get our grubby mitts on what the conservative elite
persuader Luntz is doing to scrub our brains free of individual
thoughts. You can download the entire document
here. The originating post is at
Watching the Watchers.
Review of War, Media and Propaganda: A Global Perspective
"Taken together, the 24
essays in this collection demonstrate once again the truth of
the cliché that truth is the first casualty of war. Several
contributors discuss, and are disturbed by, the unprecedented
extent of deliberate, detailed, and systematic lying (all of
which has been documented) by the Bush administration regarding
the instigation and conduct of the war on Iraq. One sees the
effect of this domestic propaganda in the fact that almost half
of all Americans believe that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction and connections with al Qaeda--both untrue.
Contributors criticize news media for their failure to challenge
the administration's contentions; they demonstrate media's
reliance on "official" sources and unwillingness to ask hard
questions that might disturb the powerful--failures evident not
only in ideologically driven sources such as Fox News but also
in the New York Times. Some essays examine Iraq war reporting
biases in Central and South America, Africa, the Mideast, and
China; in his concluding essay Majid Tehranian argues that US
news media in Iraq are war captives, not war critics. Each essay
is annotated, and a comprehensive bibliography and index round
out the book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general
readers." Reviewed by P. E. Kane, emeritus, SUNY College
at Brockport
A Call for Action on Public
Diplomacy
A January 2005 report from the Public
Diplomacy Council (GWU) that acknowledges that public diplomacy
is in crisis and in need of major reform, including expanding
global international broadcasting and a 300 percent increase in
PD staff overseas over 5 years. This report ties PD with
administration goals in the war on terrorism and views it
primarily as a tool of U.S. foreign policy, with an arsenal of
programs in the battle for hearts and minds. A dissenting
paper,
Transformation, Not Restoration,
argues for the possibility of a complete overhaul of PD's
architecture, not a return to something resembling a USIA with
greater resources.
Report of the Defense Science Board on
Strategic Communication
In September 2004, the Pentagon
released this 111-page report that says in the information war,
"the enemy has the advantage." In the war of ideas, "American
efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the
opposite of what was intended." The U.S. news media got wind of
the damning report months later, and the White House didn't go
out of its way to promote the report's findings before the
November election. The report challenges the oft-stated mantra
of the White House that those who oppose the U.S. do so because
"they hate our freedoms." Rather, the report states, they hate
our policies, and the way the U.S. has handled its foreign
policies since 9/11 has played right into the game plan of
al-Qaeda.
Public Diplomacy: How to Think About
and Improve It
This October 2004 paper from the Rand
Corporation proposes a constituency-adversary hypothesis to
improve our thinking about public diplomacy using case studies
from Martin Luther King's push for civil rights in America and
Nelson Mandela's efforts to end apartheid in South Africa. The
paper concludes that "the tasks of public diplomacy and the
obstacles confronting them are so challenging that the
enterprise should seek to enlist creative talent and solicit new
ideas from the private sector, through outsourcing of major
elements of the public diplomacy mission." It includes an
excerpt from my December 2003 World Affairs Council speech (see
below) in which I said, "Public diplomacy cannot come primarily
from the U.S. Government because it is our President and our
government officials whose images predominate in explaining U.S.
public policy...The primary source for America's image campaign
must be drawn from the American people."
How to Build An Effective Public
Diplomacy: Ten Steps for Change
Speech delivered to the World Affairs
Council, Palm Desert, California, December 14, 2003. An excerpt
from the April 1, 2004 issue of Vital Speeches of the Day
is published
here.
Media Metamorphosis: Trance or
Transformation?
Listen to the Mainstream Media
Project's World of Possibilities' interview program that was
judged "Best Regularly Scheduled Interview Program"
in the New York Festivals 2004 Programming and Promotion
competition. Theme: After cheerleading its way into a war with
Iraq, the media has come out the other side scratching its head
at its own failure to ask the tough questions when it counted
most. The watchdog turned lapdog and left government and
military leaders unaccountable. Still, maybe there's life in the
watchdog yet. Hear five leading journalists discuss...Guests:
Jennifer Glasse, Rami Khouri, Geneva Overholser, Dan Rather,
Nancy Snow.
Doublethink & Doubletalk: The Art and
Politics of Language
A forum sponsored
by the Int'l Association of Art Critics and featuring artist
Barbara Kruger, photography critic David Levi Strauss, The
Nation art critic Arthur Danto, media philosopher Boris
Groys and Nancy Snow at the NYPL, Wednesday, October 6, 2004
from 6:30-8:00 PM.
US Advisory Commission Annual Report 2004
The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
is a bipartisan presidentially appointed panel created by
Congress in 1948 with responsibility for assessing public
diplomacy policies and programs of the U.S. State Department,
American missions abroad and other agencies. Advisory Commission
responsibilities extend to international exchanges, U.S.
government international information programs, U.S. government
international broadcasting and publicly funded nongovernmental
organizations. September 28, 2004.
Journalism Under Fire
Read this
speech by Bill Moyers delivered September 11, 2004 in New York
City to the Society of Professional Journalists. You'll
see why Bill Moyers replaces Dan Rather as the most trusted news
source in American journalism. (Okay, maybe Dan Rather
never was so trusted!)
Propaganda, Inc. in
Farsi!
I've been
told by my co-editor Yahya Kamalipour that Prop, Inc. is now
available in Iran. Talk about your Persian persuasion.
Review of Information War
Read Gregory Ellison's
review of my second book in Metamorphosis, June 2004.
The Propaganda
Agenda at War
Is the U.S. Government above
propaganda? A special report by Inter Press Service News
Agency (IPS).
Media Coverage of Weapons of Mass
Destruction
Excellent study by Professor
Susan Moeller (University of Maryland) that explains how, in the
realm of public policy and national security, the media haven't
done their job in separating the facts from spin.
Information War inspires artist
John Robertson's
expressionist painting of my second book visually captures the
art of saying nothing in modern America.
Advertising America
New study says some
positive attitude changes can occur from advertising America to
the world. Researchers' study available at
Advertising America, August 23,
2004. But wait, there's more! Read Lawrence Pintak's
analysis of what conclusions can and should be drawn by this
study.
Dangerous Delusions,
August 27, 2004.
Public Diplomacy by the Numbers
A collection of multinational surveys over the last two years
that assess the U.S. standing in the world. Compiled by
the USIA Alumni Association, of which I am a member.
Marketing America: A Tale of Two Careers My assessment for Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) of the public diplomacy legacy of Charlotte Beers and Margaret Tutwiler. Republished at AntiWar.com and Asian Times Online.
Rhetoric, Politics, War and News Professor Robert L. Ivie of Indiana University has a useful collection of links as part of the Project on Democracy and War.
Image and Reality Leading British propaganda scholar Professor Philip M. Taylor asks, "Why is that that what many people once regarded as the most sophisticated communications nation on earth keeps on proving itself to be its own worst enemy in the propaganda front on the 'war' on terror?...there is a fundamental flaw in the American view of 'perception management' on the international stage--and a clue to this is in that now widely used phrase. It emanates from a Harvard MBA type of mentality that if you get the marketing right, anything will sell." Phil Taylor's website is the most comprehensive I know on all things propaganda.
Improving U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward the Middle East Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Stephen C. Johnson shares his thoughts in a May 24, 2004 lecture: "Looking back, public relations and vigorous advocacy are traditions that have roots in the founding of our country. President George Washington once counseled that 'as the structure of government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened.'"
Rush Limbaugh's Take on Arab Media
Is the real problem the U.S. is facing, as Limbaugh says, the Arab media? I link, you decide!
U.S. Considers its International Reputation
Keith Reinhard, CEO of advertising giant DDB Worldwide, says that 4 negative perceptions are holding constant about the U.S. since 9/11: (1) America exploits or takes more than it gives back; (2) U.S. values, some of which are too permissive and corrosive, are spreading too widely, too quickly; (3) U.S. is seen as arrogant and insensitive to others; (4) U.S. cares more about the almighty dollar and "hyperconsumerism." 16 May 2004
Where are the Communication Majors?
Deroy Murdock, contributing editor with National
Review Online, offers several communication strategies for the information war and concludes with this: "The war on terror — like its most active battlefield, Iraq — is more a contest of ideas than a quest for territory. In that respect, the United States is floundering. Information and images will help America win this war, as soon as the Bush administration stops sitting on relevant data and instead deploys them as weapons of mass persuasion." 14 May 2004
The Iraqi Horror Picture Show My interview with Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief for Newsweek 12 May 2004. Dickey is the son of novelist and poet, James Dickey. Both are outstanding writers. I 'd like to share this speech Chris gave at Clemson University last November as an excellent example of deeply personal storytelling.
Truth from these Podia Summary of a study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II. Author is Sam Gardiner, USAF (Retired). 8 October 2003
Selling America: How Well Does U.S. Government Broadcasting Work in the Middle East? American Enterprise Institute panel 11 May 2004
Propaganda, Inc. is now available in Portuguese by Graphia and is also available in Korean. Information War will soon be available in Japanese.
Warrior Candidates Get Ready for Their Closeup
(Media Channel.org April 13, 2004) Whatever the next round of ads will bring, we can be sure that image will triumph over substantive inquiry into complex issues. And may the best brand win.
Soft Power is MIA in Foreign Policy
(O'Dwyer's PR Daily, April 12, 2004) Every PR person interested in public diplomacy should read "Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics" by Joseph Nye, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It is to 21st century international PR what Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" was to global trend-setting.
How to Become a Person of Persuasion
Keynote plenary at the 75th anniversary of the Religion Communicators Council, March 25, 2004.
State of the News Media 2004
Outstanding and comprehensive assessment of American journalism this year. Inaugural edition. USA Today summarizes: "The 500-page report, an inaugural effort at a comprehensive annual look at the media, paints a dim picture of the dominant mass media of the 20th century, newspapers and network television. It finds them both in serious and long-term decline (daily newspaper circulation down 11% since 1990; evening news viewership down 28% since 1993). Only three out of eight media sectors are seeing audience growth: ethnic, alternative and online media...and there is much more "newsgathering in the raw," less double-checking of facts and putting those facts in perspective, in journalism than before."
A Year After the Iraq War
Pew Global Attitudes Survey, March 16, 2004.A Discontent with America and its policies has intensified. French and German opinion of the U.S. is at least as negative now as at the war's conclusion, and British views are decidedly more critical. Perceptions of American unilateralism remain widespread in European and Muslim nations, and the war in Iraq has undermined America's credibility abroad. Doubts about the motives behind the U.S. war on terrorism abound. A growing percentage of Europeans want foreign policy and security arrangements independent from the United States. (Look at Spain!) Across Europe, there is considerable support for the European Union to become as powerful as the United States. Muslim anger toward the United States remains pervasive, although the level of hatred has eased somewhat and support for the war on terrorism has inched up. Osama bin Laden, however, is viewed favorably by large percentages in Pakistan (65%), Jordan (55%) and Morocco (45%). Even in Turkey, where bin Laden is highly unpopular, as many as 31% say that suicide attacks against Americans and other Westerners in Iraq are justifiable.
We Aren't the World
Latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey shows how the dismal times, they aren't `a changing, despite what Dylan and others sang back in 1985. Does the U.S. need a new global anthem, and if so, will the world bother to listen? O'Dwyer's PR Daily, March 19, 2004
The Propaganda of the Deed
A message of condolence to the people of Spain, March 12, 2004
Al Hurra-Al Who? Haven't Heard? We're Free, They're Not!
Special to O'Dwyer's PR Daily, March 8, 2004
Public Diplomacy and International Free Press
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 26, 2004 with statements from Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Margaret Tutwiler and USC Center on Public Diplomacy senior fellow Adam Clayton Powell III.
Now with Bill Moyers
If you haven't been watching, this is one of the best options for watching television with a clear conscience. I'm thrilled that Now has included a section called
Milestones in Media and Politics, with long forgotten media and democracy struggles like the John Peter Zenger trial. Robert McChesney comments that "the founding fathers...their legacy here is very rich. They understood that setting up a diverse, well funded media system with a broad range of viewpoints was the essence of building of the oxygen for democracy. And it took conscious policies. It didn't happen naturally — you had to work at it."
We Hate You (But Keep Sending Us Baywatch)
The Writers Guild of America (West) presented a discussion on the popularity of American entertainment in those places on the planet where American politics are reviled. A USC Annenberg/Normal Lear Center publication.
Public Diplomacy in the Middle East:
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (O'Dwyer's PR, February 13, 2004) Anyone who is unfamiliar with O'Dwyer's PR should take a good long look if you have any interest in the public relations industry. Google and Yahoo named O'Dwyer's PR #1 website for news about the public relations industry. I tell all my students, most of whom are public relations majors, that if they want to be successful in the world they have to read a daily newspaper and be up on the news in politics and business. O'Dwyer's is the daily online newspaper for PR.
Regaining America's Voice Overseas
Heritage Foundation Lecture #817 by President Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. (January 13, 2004)
Managed Information Dissemination
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, October 2001; Unclassified document in PDF format
Kill Your TV: No Oops, I Really Mean It
If you have never had a TV, don't buy one. If you do have a TV and decide to watch, watch responsibly. This message brought to you by the yet-to-exist U.S. Coalition Against TV Mental Abuse. 25 years ago Jerry Mander wrote Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. He was being
modest. If after reading this message, you still choose to watch, (and I do, but wish I never got started), support your local public radio and television station and C-SPAN, the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, that provides a real public service, an open forum for free expression, and strengthens the national dialogue. Cher called C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Monday, October 27, 2003 and said, "I have to tell you, I watch you [C-SPAN] everyday and I really appreciate it because I go all over the world and I must say that the news we get in America has nothing to do with the news you get outside of this country. And I think that's why people don't understand why so many of the allies did not join us....There's a source I really like inside the US that gives you special documentaries called WORLDLINK, but I think my favorite source outside the U.S. is BBC because they are our allies, but you still get much more coverage and I think more honest coverage. They're independent, so they're not owned by any of the major corporations that have vested interest in this war." Highly recommended NPR programs: Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, On the Media, and Talk of the Nation.
Embed or In Bed?
Two new recommended readings are Danny Schechter's Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception and David Miller's Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq (Pluto, 2004.) The latter contains my chapter, "Brainscrubbing: The Failures of U.S. Public Diplomacy after 9/11.
U.S. Public Diplomacy
2003 marked what would have been the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA). Defunct as an independent government agency since 1999, its cultural and educational programs were transferred to the U.S. State Department. It will be very interesting to see how Margaret Tutwiler, the new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, handles the PD challenge. Two recent articles worth reading on the subject are by Wilson Dizard and William P. Kiehl.
Information Operations
The U.S. Department of the Army has just published (November 28,
2003) its Information Operations field manual for
public distribution.
Public Diplomacy Bookmarks
Compiled by USC Annenberg colleague and fellow PD advocate, Gordon Stables. A must-read list for the post-9/11 persuasion and propaganda crowd.
Triumph of the People's Will
(The California Recall Results)
Misperceptions, The Media and Iraq War
October 2, 2003 report from the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)
Changing Minds, Winning Peace
October 1, 2003 report on new strategic directions in U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World.
U.S. Asks Muslims Why It is Unloved
Indonesians reply, "Just talk to us" (From the files of "Why didn't I think of that")
Finding America's Voice
A Strategy for Reinvigorating U.S. Public Diplomacy 18 September 2003 report by the CFR Independent Task Force on Public Diplomacy.
First Iraq Poll
(Zogby International and the American Enterprise Institute magazine) Their data challenges the "bad news bias" of the press. Is there really good news? Read the report: The American Enterprise: The First Scientific Poll of Current Iraqi Public Opinion
After Two Years Stephen R. Shalom's Z magazine piece
"So now, two years after the horrors of 9-11, given the fact that this administration has staked its future on making its citizens safe from terrorism, it's reasonable to ask what it has actually done to reduce the threat of anti-U.S. terrorism." Must Read!
VOA-TV Political Analyst
In October, just in time for the installation of Governor Arnold, I'll be serving as a political commentator for Voice of America TV/WORLDNET Television Service, which airs in over 40 countries. I will discuss the recall election and all the fruit, flakes and nuts that we call California politics and people. Check it out online at
VOA
U.S. Public Diplomacy: U.S. State Department Expands Effort but Faces Significant Challenges GAO Report released September 2003
CNN DEBUT
In case you blinked, I appeared on CNN domestic and international August 14, 2003 to comment on California's recall race, sandwiched between interviews with billboard queen Angelyne and former child star-turned security guard, Gary Coleman. If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere. Highlight was being interviewed by Cash Peters, author of Gullible's Travels, who still owes me a VHS copy of my debut.
Is the US fit to run the World?
Adbusters magazine July/August 2003 issue asks readers to weigh in. On the plus side, we're idealistic and have that "can-do" attitude; on the minus side, we have over 2 million in prison and can't find Iraq on the map.
What the World Thinks of America
BBC hosts a global television debate about America's place in the world, Tuesday, 17 June at 21 BST.
We're Caught in a Trap Pew Global Attitudes Survey (3 June 2003)
War and Words: Free Speech and Information Control
California State University, Fullerton Titan Magazine, Summer 2003
Global Media Question American/UK Credibility
Weapons of Mass Destruction/Distraction? You Decide.
When Truth is a Dangerous Thing
My tribute to Boston Globe war correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer.
11 May 2003
Operation Media Monopoly Freedom
Remarks to FCC Forum on media ownership, University of Southern California, 28 April 2003
Truth & Media Consequences
MSNBC correspondent Ashleigh Banfield bares all about the war coverage in Iraq.
Foreign Media Commentary: Read and React
Each business day, the U.S. Department of State's Office of Research produces an Issue Focus of foreign media commentary on a major foreign policy issue or related event. Feedback: The U.S. Department of State's Office of Media Reaction welcomes public comments regarding the usefulness of this product. E-MAIL your comments or phone them at: (202) 619-6511.
Propaganda Nation - OCWeekly Interview
CSUF professor Nancy Snow on America’s war of words
Heritage Foundation Report: How to Reinvigorate U.S. Public Diplomacy
23 April 2003
Flying Over the Iraqi Landscape: Fox News Channel
Interview with John Gibson, The Big Story, 23 March '03 |
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