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July 6-9
Abbreviated PDPBR edition due to an increased summer teaching schedule for its compiler"I really think I can protect myself from the Swiss."--Lucile Atcherson, the first woman U.S. Foreign Service...
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July 10-11
Abbreviated edition"There were some wonderful foreign-service officers among the 1,300 people at the embassy, but they never left the compound, so they never met any Afghans. You can't do a one-year...
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July 12-14
"I worked for 10 years as president of National Public Radio in the United States, which is a private, independent, nonprofit company. RFE/RL is exactly the same thing."--U.S. government-funded Radio...
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July 15-19
Abbreviated edition, due to your PDPBR compiler's increased teaching obligations “Propaganda is a pejorative term ...” --Broadcasting Board of Governors [BBG] spokesperson Lynne Weil; image from"[T]he...
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July 20
"Is the statement that 'VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive' propaganda for the view that 'VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive'?"--Question from a student; image...
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July 21
"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."--La Rochefoucauld; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACY Internal Report: State Department's Social Media Shop Is A 'Toxic' Hotbed of...
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July 22-24
Abbreviated edition, due to your PDPBR' s compiler's increased summer teaching obligations"¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,una sombra, una ficción,y el mayor bien es...
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July 25-26
--From; on the authenticity of this quotation, seeVIDEOMaps As Propaganda, Ctd - dish.andrewsullivan.comPUBLIC DIPLOMACYContrasting Views on US Nobility - Paul R. Pillar, middle-east-online.com:...
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July 27
"At its core, propaganda refers to any technique or action that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, or behavior of a group, in order to benefit the sponsor."--Scholar Kenneth A. Osgood; on...
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July 28
"Released from his work in the soulless safety of the Ministry of Information, [author Graham] Greene used his night job as an air warden [during the London blitz] to prowl among the ruins or make love...
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July 29
"news is the shock troops of propaganda" --A fundamental axiom laid down by Sir John Reith (1889–1971), the former director general of the BBC, when he was appointed Britain's minister of information...
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July 30-August 1
“Humanist” --Dog tag worn by Pfc. Bradley Manning while on duty in Iraq; image from“You know I, for one, always try to keep a level head, but even I am enraged by this Bradley Manning trial. First of...
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August 2-3
"the ministry has 700 odd IFS (Indian Foreign Service) cadre officials."--India's External affairs minister Salman Khurshid, "Ministry of external affairs is undergoing change," The Times of India;...
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August 4
"When far too much information gets classified, nothing is really classified."--New York Times Washington correspondent David E. Sanger; image from"when a government agency can monitor everyone's phone...
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August 5
“I think of well-sealed windows! No other country can make such well-sealed and nice windows [dichte und schöne Fenster].”--German Chancellor Angela Merkel, answering a question about what feelings...
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August 6
"To obey is to betray, to disobey is to serve."--Motto cited on the cover of Olivier Wieviorka's new book, Histoire de la résistance; cited in Robert Gildea, "Souls and trains," The Times Literary...
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August 7
“What is less customer-focused than a pay wall?”--Brad Stone, a journalist who has covered Amazon for more than 14 years, speculating on the move that Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, purchaser of the...
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August 8
"There is no map."--Washington Post purchaser Jeffrey Bozos, regarding the future of the news business; image from"Social media has given us the illusion of hard data, analytics, and control when what...
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August 8
"There is no map."--Washington Post purchaser Jeffrey Bozos, regarding the future of the news business; image from"Social media has given us the illusion of hard data, analytics, and control when what...
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Friends,For some reason, the "Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review" (PDPBR) is not regularly sent to Feedburner subscribers to this blog, as it was in the now rather distant past.I have no...
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