Public Diplomacy and the Importance of Careful Labeling
Worldcasting was reminded this week of why the word "labeling" should be used with the greatest of care in the practice of public diplomacy.
One example was the trip to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI, during which he sought to calm Muslim rage over his earlier quotation from a medieval text that labeled Islam a violent religion. It was also the week that NBC News decided to label the violence in Iraq as a "civil war," not simply a "war." Read More