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  • "INP Kept Busy 'Untwisting' News of U.S."
    History,  ICYMI,  VOA

    1949: “You’ve told us why the Voice, but you haven’t told us what it is”

    December 1, 2015

    George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, writes why Americans can't easily hear VOA in the United States and how effectiveness is measured. 

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  • Public Diplomacy

    No, We Do Not Need to Revive the U.S. Information Agency – endnote edition

    November 12, 2015

    Lamenting the demise of USIA is really a coded acknowledgment that we lack a strategy, an organizing principle, and empowered individuals to execute information warfare today. For historians and fact checkers, find the footnotes here. 

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  • Public Diplomacy,  State Department

    R we there yet? A look at the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy (and Public Affairs)

    January 10, 2012

    A review of the tenures of the Under Secretary's for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs raises questions about the perceived role of the position by the White House and the State Department.  

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  • Public Diplomacy,  Smith-Mundt

    Senator Edward Zorinsky and Banning Domestic Access to USIA in 1985

    May 28, 2009

    "The American taxpayer certainly does not need or want his tax dollars used to support U.S. Government propaganda directed at him or her." A quote always devoid of context and nearly always without reference. The whole of Senator Zorinsky's statement might change your perspective on the quote.

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Recent Posts

  • Feb 09, 2019 Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #94
  • Feb 09, 2019 Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #93
  • Dec 06, 2018 S.3654 and Accountability for the US Agency for Global Media
  • Sep 27, 2018 1957: Eisenhower, Dulles and merging USIA back into State, or Not
  • Sep 21, 2018 Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #92
  • May 10, 2018 Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #91
  • Sep 21, 2017 Don’t do it: why the Foreign Agent designation is welcomed by RT and Sputnik

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