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The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School.
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JUL 29, 2009
Posted by Andrew Wulf
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Last week I attended "Face-off to Facebook: From the Nixon-Khruschev Debate to Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century", a conference sponsored by George Washington University's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at the School of Media and Public Affairs. The event was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the American National Exhibition in Moscow and the infamous impromptu tête-à-tête that took place between Vice President Richard Nixon and General Secretary Nikita Khruschev.
What made this convocation of Cold War scholars, State Department diplomats and new media specialists so substantial from a historical point of view, was the presence... Full Text
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JUL 28, 2009
Posted by Alvin Snyder
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Edward R. Murrow's famous remark about the importance of "the last three feet" to bridge personal contact was not unexpectedly raised at last week's conference that I attended at George Washington University, on the 50th anniversary of the Nixon-Krushchev "Kitchen Debate" at the 1959 U.S. Exhibition in Moscow. But few may know that Murrow raised the last few feet issue informally, and more than once, with colleagues at CBS News in New York long before he uttered them as director of the U.S. Information Agency.
In the late 1950s, when I was a news writer at CBS News, and several... Full Text
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JUL 27, 2009
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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The reaction in much of the world was muted, or less. But in some countries that have racial tensions similar to the U.S., the coverage was less muted — and looked familiar.
In Canada, perhaps not unexpectedly, there were Sunday headlines familiar to U.S. readers: "Tsk tsk, Obama spoke too soon" in the National Post and "Black Harvard prof's arrest shakes U.S." deep inside the Toronto Star, the latter also featuring a Canadian case of racial profiling. But the big story in the Star Sunday was a dispatch from its Washington bureau on the latest public opinion polls, headlined "Are... Full Text
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JUL 23, 2009
Posted by Shawn Powers
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At a recent conference, David Weinberger argued that the future of the news industry is in transparency. Five simple words described how the ailing news industry should move forward: "Transparency is the new objectivity." Reflecting on the rise of alternative media and the increasing loss of legitimacy that the prestige media are facing, Weinberger argued: "What we used to believe because we thought the author was objective we now believe because we can see through the author’s writings to the sources and values that brought her to that position. Transparency gives the reader information by which she can undo some... Full Text
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JUL 22, 2009
Posted by Philip Seib
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Barack Obama may be the best exponent of American public diplomacy since Benjamin Franklin, inspiring a newly hopeful attitude about the United States in many parts of the world. But beyond the president himself U.S. public diplomacy lacks coherence and impact.
A simple definition of "public diplomacy" is a government (and some non-state actors) reaching out to foreign publics, rather than confining itself to the government-to-government communication of traditional diplomacy. As long as U.S. policymakers continue to seek an answer to the post-9/11 question, "Why do they hate us?" public diplomacy should be an integral part of America's approach to... Full Text
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