"I go to McDonald's every day. But I don't eat much."
--A Brandy Norwood
VIDEO
How McDonald's makes its burgers look delicious in ads [Video; subscription] - Tiffany Hsu, latimes.com: "That McDonald’s burger from your neighborhood drive-thru is never quite as luscious-looking as its juicy, dripping Now customers can see why in a new behind-the-scenes video produced by the fast-food giant."
PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
Global Twitter Q qnd A with Under Secretary Tara Sonenshine - Media Note, Office of the Spokesperson, U.S. Department of State, Washington DC, June 21, 2012: "On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EDT, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine will participate in a global Twitter Q and A. Using the hashtag #AskState, participants from around the world can simultaneously submit questions and share ideas directly with Under Secretary Sonenshine about
State Department: Public Schedule for June 22, 2012 - posted at edwardcampbellmedia.blogspot.com: "UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE 9:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine meets with U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena, at the Department of State. ... 10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine meets with U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Allan Katz, at the Department of State."
Press Releases: EducationUSA Forum 2012 Hosts Leaders in U.S. Higher Education, posted at myp.tv: "The U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs will host its third EducationUSA Forum on expanding international enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities on June 27-29, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. The forum brings leaders in U.S. higher education to join EducationUSA regional coordinators and advisers to discuss strategies for attracting international students to U.S. colleges and universities. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine will address the forum during the opening session Wednesday, June 27th at 8:30 a.m. and Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Janice Jacobs will address the plenary session on Thursday, June 28th at 8:30 a.m."
Public Diplomacy as an Instrument of Counterterrorism: A Progress Report - Matt Armstrong, mountainrunner.us: "In this recent speech, the founding Coordinator of the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications traces the origins of the organization, its main initial activities, and the challenges it faced. Among his recommendations is development of specialized communications teams with skill levels equaling SEAL teams to counter terrorist propaganda and reduce the flow of new recruits to terror."
Lift the Ban on the Domestic Dissemination of U.S. Propaganda: It's time for American citizens to see the government-funded propaganda directed at other countries - Greg Beato, reason.com: "Opening up the homefront to the BBG and the government’s other public diplomacy operations might expose us to some propaganda, but it would also expose these operations to the intense scrutiny of millions of American eyeballs. In this age of creeping democracy, when institutions of all manners are struggling to make themselves more transparent, more accountable, more accessible to the constituencies that power them, such scrutiny is long overdue."
"Czech Helsinki Committee criticises RFE/RL over job contracts" (updated) - Kim Andrew Elliott reporting on International Broadcasting
Letter to BBG about labor practices at RFE/RL - BBGWatcher, USG Broadcasts/BBG Watch
Prince Faisal patronizes NATO Public Diplomacy Seminar - petra.gov.jo: "His Royal highness Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein said that it is more than twenty two years since the fall of Berlin wall that marked the end of the cold war, and raised the hopes for a better, safe and
secure future for our people. The same years, he added, unfortunately witnessed the scourge of unprecedented waves of aggression, destruction and terrorism that swept the whole world including the Middle East.Prince Faisal made the remarks at the NATO Public Diplomacy Seminar entitled 'NATO in the New Global Security Era' which was organized by the Foreign Ministry in cooperation with the Institute of Diplomacy and NATO." Image from article. See also
Balsillie CIGI schools and public events with the hosting of the media coverage of the Arab revolt - leblogvideodeluciano.com: "Habib Battah (speaker): For several years, Habib Battah, a journalist based in Beirut, filmmakers and media critics, has covered the Arab media for publication and broadcast in the West and the Middle East. She has focused especially the social impact and public diplomacy in the pan-Arab satellite stations, including major Gulf Arab network Al-Jazeera, Al Arabia and others, as well as increasing numbers of government-sponsored shop West and Asia are now sending to the Arab region."
The limits of country branding - Global Public Diplomacy: "[M]ost countries have realized that branding it is not only about having a commercial logo or a catchy slogan."
The U.S. Navy: Bringing Aid and Rock to Africa - Michael McLean - 'Written by Michael McLean, Public Diplomacy graduate student, Syracuse University."
The Official Blog of the UNA-GB - unagb.wordpress.com: "Ema Woodward[ :] Intern Focus: Education [.] Just next door to historic Concord and Lexington, I grew up in the small town of Carlisle, Massachusetts. When I was five, my family and I lived in Fiji and Micronesia for one year, and ever since, my travel experiences have been diverse: a high school band trip to Japan, a visit to friends and family in France and Switzerland, a women’s conference in Bali, and a service trip in the Dominican Republic. During past summers, I interned with Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston and Développement Solidaire et Durable, a start-up in Montpellier, France.
Currently I am pursuing a B.A. in Global Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, with minors in Architecture, and French and Francophone Studies. Thanks to one year of full immersion in various parts of France (Normandy, Montpellier, and Paris), I have deepened my cultural and linguistic understanding, as well as having developed a strong interest in Franco-American relations, politics and immigration issues. After graduation, I hope to pursue a Masters degree in International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies, to become a Public Diplomacy Foreign Service Officer. In my free time, I enjoy reading, journaling, playing soccer and going to the cinema." Image, evidently of Woodward, from entry
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How Obama’s foreign policy team relates to the Vietnam War — or doesn’t - James Mann, Washington Post: Obama Democrats don’t want to think about Vietnam. It was the preoccupation of an earlier generation, one that they see as having dominated American foreign policy for too long.
Leaks, leakers and legal niceties: How is a published state secret like a pilfered painting? Read on - Michael Kinsley, latimes.com: Of the supposed national security secrets revealed in recent weeks, it's difficult to see how much practical harm could come from the revelation that President Obama personally picks out the targets for assassination-by-drone, or that the Israelis assisted in a successful U.S. effort to cripple Iran'snuclear program with a computer virus.
What the Troops Did in Afghanistan [review of Little America By Rajiv Chandrasekaran] - Max Boot, Wall Street Journal: It is premature to conclude, as Mr. Chandrasekaran does, that Afghanistan is "the good war . . . turned bad."
AMERICANA
(a)"Inequality is greater here than in any other advanced country."
--Joseph E. Stiglitz, How policy has contributed to the great US economic divide, Los Angeles Times
(b) Review: LACMA's new hunk 'Levitated Mass' has some substance: The attention given to Michael Heizer's 'Levitated Mass' at LACMA has many anticipating a masterpiece or a fiasco. But it's not that simple - Christopher Knight: This project encountered an unexpected hurdle. Celebratory hubbub and international media noise accompanied the sculpture's centerpiece — a 340-ton stone megalith — on its remarkable spring journey from a quarry outside Riverside to mid-city L.A. Huge advance publicity set up a love-it-or-hate-it anticipation for either a masterpiece or a fiasco.
But this work is neither. The sober, even solemn finished sculpture at LACMA reminds us that our headlong tendency to divide a world of rich, granular grays into stark black-or-white is its own form of ruin. Image from article, with caption: Michael Heizer's "Levitated Mass," the commissioned sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), gives visitors the chance to walk underneath a 340-ton granite boulder.
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