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A PUBLIC DIPLOMACY LEGACY
OCT 4, 2011
 Posted by Alvin Snyder
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Public diplomacy mourns yet another practitioner who helped tear down the Berlin Wall during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Mo Rothman, a former top Hollywood film executive, died at the age of 92 in Los Angeles on September 15. Mo was a member of our volunteer Film Acquisitions Committee at the U.S. Information Agency in the 1980's. As administrator of the rights to the classic Charlie Chaplin silent films, Mo obtained access to them for us, and they became instant hits and needed no translation for audiences abroad, who loved Chaplin's "City Lights," "Limelight," "The Goldrush!," and others.…... Full Text
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ARABIC SATELLITE CHANNELS AT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
FEB 3, 2011
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With armies of reporters from Al Jazeera and Alhurra and slews of other news media organizations covering the Middle East, one wonders how the seeds of anti-government sentiment in Egypt were not detected before streets were filled with protesters and now police violence and death. Diplomats in Washington and other world capitals seem to have been similarly blindsided. The Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera has been a primary source for breaking visual coverage of this unfolding news story, and the channel can be expected to solidify its base of viewers and be exposed to potential new viewers. But the same…... Full Text
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JANE FONDA PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
JAN 31, 2011
 Posted by Alvin Snyder
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Adam Powell reports in his most recent CPD Blog post that the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors plans to investigate expanded program acquisitions for use overseas on the Voice of America and perhaps other U.S. government non-military international broadcasts under its aegis. The BBG plans to weigh this initiative in its yearly strategic review of broadcast operations. It is said to believe that airing the U.S. Sunday morning network news interview programs would further showcase the openness of government public discourse from Washington. The VOA says it already has an affiliate agreement with ABC ONE, “allowing VOA to use newsworthy…... Full Text
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MOVING AHEAD OF THE PACK
DEC 22, 2010
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The Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency that oversees U.S. government non-military international broadcast and Internet services, probably knows more than it's letting on. The good news is that it has released another in its series of expertly researched documents on viewing and listening habits related to its many language services abroad. But little detailed background is disclosed regarding its competition abroad from other counties. As competition is one factor cited by the BBG for the slight decline in its various audience platforms from last year to this, that would need to be considered a shortcoming of this report.…... Full Text
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MORE HISTORY ON A MURROW OBSESSION
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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