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May 4
"We do not pay for the VOA to be just another news outlet.” --A House Foreign Affairs Committee spokesperson adding “We pay for the VOA to provide news that supports our national security objectives.”...
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Reflections on the Declining Global Influence of American Popular Culture
Note: written in 2004 by John Brown, fromReposted in response to a brilliant talk (no wonder I don't fully agree with her) by Martha Bayles, author of Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public...
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May 5-7
"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."--George Bernard Shaw; image fromPUBLIC DISCUSSIONJ. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Explores "'The...
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May 8-13
"Marx had actually considered moving to the United States -- to newly annexed Texas -- but he discovered it was 'hellishly expensive' and dropped the idea."--Kevin Peraino, Lincoln in the World: The...
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May 14-16
"[I]n order to understand oneself, and the culture from which one emerges, a degree of self-exile is called for."--Writer Patrick Langley, The Times Literary Supplement (May 2, 2014), p. 19; image...
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May 21
"Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed."--Bertrand Russell; Via MB on Facebook; Russell image fromVIDEOA ‘Happy’ tribute video brings unhappiness in Iran - Nick Kirkpatrick,...
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May 22
"St Anthony's, Oxford -- known at the time as a 'spy college, because of its Fellows' reputed links with British intelligence -- considered that Russian history has ceased with the Revolution:...
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May 23-25
"3. Eye Servant"--A term describing a servant who did his duty only lazily except when within sight of his master, "a form of insincerity known as 'eye-service'"; from Erin McCarthy,"16 Weird Forgotten...
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May 26
Memorial Day image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWSOf Proposed Fulbright Cuts, Reaper Drones and the American Fulbright University in Vietnam - An International Educator in Vietnam: Information,...
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May 27
“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”--Goethe; image fromESSAYBenghazi and the “conditioning of managers to favor restricting the use of resources as a general orientation"- Ambassador Robert...
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May 28-29
"If you want to irritate a professor of philosophy, you should corner one at at a party and confront him or her with the momentous question of the very meaning of life."--Professor Crispin Sartwell,...
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May 30-31
"we need to untether our employees from their desks"--Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. State Department; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYTeachers and the Transatlantic Relationship -...
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June 1
"- Некоторые говорят, что и со стороны Запада идет пропаганда... - В США это называется общественной дипломатией (public diplomacy). Мы не делаем ее в достаточном количестве, честно говоря.""- Some say...
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June 2
“(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied. So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.”...
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June 3
"[T]he Declaration of Independence is, in effect, a work of propaganda, -- or, to put it more politely, an exercise in public diplomacy."--Former Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (during...
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June 4-5
Abbreviated Edition"I scrub the dishes against my wishes to make this world safe for democracy."--A line from Irving Berlin's Yip, Yip, Yaphank, staged in 1918; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACY...
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June 6-7
"nobody believes anything management has to say anymore."--One current VOA staffer"The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth."-William Harlan Hale, 1st VOA broadcast...
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June 8-9
"Sois sage, ô ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille.Tu réclamais le Soir; il descend; le voici:Une atmosphère obscure enveloppe la ville,Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci."--Baudelaire;...
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June 10
"Education is not a matter of coercion or even persuasion, but always and only a matter of invitation."--Andrew Delbanco, director of American studies, Columbia University; image from"Belly...
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June 11-13
Abbreviated edition"The war in Iraq was lost as it started."--American diplomat Peter Van Buren; uncaptioned image from; see also.PUBLIC DIPLOMACYInstead of Isolating Putin’s Russia, U.S. Must Offer...
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