Clinton on Internet Freedom - Walking the Talk?
The Arab revolutions have boosted the importance of freedom of expression on the Internetamong human rights advocates. This is a relatively new subject for public diplomacy, but one that should be...
View ArticleA struggle for the soul of U.S. international broadcasting?
In a tiny, crowded conference room on Capitol Hill April 6 --- ignored by camera crews covering what appeared to be an imminent U.S. government shutdown --- a decades-old struggle on the content of...
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Making sure our Voice can be heard
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) does not often find itself in the headlines, but its budget request for fiscal year 2012 may change that. The reason: The BBG has proposed halting all of...
View ArticleInternational Broadcasting at a Crossroads
We just posted Council Member Alan Heil's "LANDSCAPE OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING: VOA and the BBC at a Crossroads", which also appears in the current edition of Public Diplomacy Magazine (USC...
View ArticleCouncil Calls for Release of Journalists Held in Syria
PDC Also Calls for the Immediate Release of Journalists Held in Syria The Public Diplomacy Council joins the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in calling for the immediate release of two...
View ArticleThe Paris Attacks and U.S. Public Diplomacy
The Paris Attacks and U.S. Public Diplomacy Donald M. Bishop In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, governments; defense, interior, and foreign ministries; militaries; and police forces are feeling...
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Quotable: Michael Lumpkin on DOD support for State’s countering “adversary...
“. . . our [Military Information Support Operations] capabilities will be ready to play their vital role . . . as an integral part of our Nation’s comprehensive efforts to counter adversary...
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Quotable: Guy Taylor on broadcasting reorganization
Washington Times “Russia has reorganized and intensified its international propaganda machine so effectively over the past decade that some Western lawmakers and diplomats say Washington now is badly...
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Quotable: Guy Taylor Interviews BBG’s Jeff Shell
“The U.S. government’s international media operations grossly lack funding to counter effectively the rising global blitz of state-sponsored propaganda from Russia, China and other rivals . . .” This...
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Quotable: Edward Royce on U.S. international broadcasting
house.gov “We have to be able to talk about freedom. We have to be able to talk about these issues that I’m speaking of—freedom of religion and so forth—and give people a vision of a different society...
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The Useful Idiots Show
During the 1950s, there was a term that was sometimes used to describe people who were exploited by Soviet communists to publicly support their ideology. The term was “useful idiots.”The phrase, like...
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PLEASE, NO MORE KUDZU!
Earlier this week, Republican Senator Rob Portman and Democratic Senator Chris Murphy introduced a bill, the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016, which would create a new “center” to produce and...
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Quotable: Robert Reilly on Public Diplomacy and Information Operations (IV) –...
Robert Reilly’s 2013 paper, “Information Operations: Successes and Failures,” continues: On the other hand, VOA and the BBG did get something right, at least at the start, concerning Afghanistan. . ....
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Quotable: Robert Reilly on Public Diplomacy and Information Operations (II) –...
The U.S. government's overseas broadcasting is the second major topic in Robert Reilly’s 2013 paper, “Information Operations: Successes and Failures,” published in 2013 by the Westminster Institute....
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Maybe It's Not Kudzu?
Backyard Garden photo by Jasper33 via Creative Commons A previous commentary here unfortunately missed the point about kudzu. Sorry, I mean, about the ‘‘Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016.’’...
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Quotable: Pascale Siegel on the Global Engagement Center and its challenges
“Designating the Global Engagement Center as lead agency for coordinating and synchronizing fills a much needed void. Yet, it can hardly be said that the center is receiving the means it needs to...
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Quotable: Brett Schaefer on State Department and Public Diplomacy effectiveness
heritage.org “In a world where information warfare is being conducted by major powers as well as by unconventional enemies of the United States, the U.S. government must have the tools to engage in...
View ArticleQuotable: Dan Robinson on management and choices at the Broadcasting Board of...
“More drama is playing out involving the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), long recognized as one of the most mismanaged and broken of federal agencies,” wrote retired Voice of America journalist...
View ArticleQuotable: The Annual Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
The gold standard of comprehensive reports on human rights in China is published by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The Commission -- comprised of nine members of the House of...
View ArticleQuotable: John Lansing’s reply to Russia’s denying entry to BBG Chair Jeff Shell
CEO John Lansing statement on the detainment of BBG Chair Jeff Shell (Full Text) WASHINGTON, July 16, 2016, PRNewswire-USNewswire -- On Tuesday, BBG Board Chairman Jeff Shell was denied entry into...
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