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Published: FEB 4, 2008 - 9:52AM PST

John Brown's Public Diplomacy Review
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PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PRESS AND BLOG REVIEW, FEBRUARY 3-4, 2008
by John H. Brown

Dear Friends, This will be the last PDPBR, due to circumstances beyond my control. With best wishes and with many thanks for your interest in public diplomacy and America’s role in the world. Best, John PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PRESS AND BLOG REVIEW, FEBRUARY 3-4 “Bill Kristol: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment—it would be crazy for the Democratic Party to follow an establishment that’s led it to defeat year after year. White women are a problem, that’s, you know—we all live with that. (laughter) Juan Williams (National Public Radio correspondent and Fox News contributor): Not me!” —Exchange on the February 3 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.‘s Fox News Sunday http://mediamatters.org/items/200802030002 via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ EVENT The West’s Secret Plan for the Mind: Book Distribution to East Europe during the Cold War (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, February 6 : 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.print&event_id=353382&stoplayout=true courtesy Len Baldyga VIDEO a) Donald Duck In The Spirit Of ‘43 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZOdXg3zhlI via http://current.com/items/88832582_the_propaganda_post b) FOX - George Bush Just Like Abraham Lincoln http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8022267991724476901&q=propaganda&total=38748&start=10&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=8 A) PUBLIC DIPLOMACY (1-15) 1. SFRC Hears From Public Diplomacy Nominees – (U.S. Diplomacy: A Great Decisions 2008 Blog, February 4): On Wednesday of last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard the testimony of three of President Bush’s nominees seeking confirmation to hold State Department positions in the bureau of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. The first to testify was James K. Glassman. It appears that Glassman has been doing his homework. Also testifying was Goli Ameri, President Bush’s nominee to hold the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). http://diplomacy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/02/03/sfrc-hears-from-public-diplomacy-nominees/ Glassman prepared testimony at http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testimony/2008/GlassmanTestimony080130.pdf 2. Newsletter: Public Diplomacy in Europe, December 2007 (Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. State Department, Washington DC) http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/newsletter/99812.htm Courtesy Len Baldyga 3. Kremlin More Subtly Jams Freedom’s Beams - Diane Zeleny, Director of Communications, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague (Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, February 1): Little can be done, apparently, to convince the Kremlin to allow a free and fair domestic media, which makes the mission of international, independent Russian language media all the more critical. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120182977891733977.html via http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=3273 4. (Kim Andrew Elliott Discussing International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy), latest edition http://www.kimandrewelliott.com/ 5. UNI [University of Northern Iowa], other U.S. colleges, benefit from increase in international students - Mary Stegmeir (Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA, February 3): “Having international students here is really a good form of public diplomacy,” said Ross Schupbach, UNI’s international student admissions advisor. “It is something that breaks down barriers and lets people know how things work in the United States. We hope that they have a good experience here, and communicate that back in their home country.” http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/02/03/news/top_story/f0e7df52e4f2a4ef862573e40014a421.txt 6. “Politics and The Arts” — (hatto fischer, poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground, January 31): “One thing I don’t understand and with that I shall close my comments: the use of the term ‘cultural diplomacy’. Like in Europe…... FULL TEXT