by editor | Jan 27, 2009 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman In November of last year I published an op-ed piece expressing my hope that President Barack Obama would follow-through with his campaign pledges to use humility to help repair the country’s image with Muslims abroad. In his first week in...
by editor | Jan 20, 2009 | Government, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Apparently one minute after Barack Obama was sworn in as President, the switch was flipped on a new whitehouse.gov website. One interesting new feature is a blog that launched with five posts. One of those is entitled Change has come to...
by editor | Jan 20, 2009 | Diplomacy, Government
by Steven R. Corman Yesterday Walter Pincus at WaPo published an article entitled Clinton’s Goals Detailed that contains the first news I’ve seen about how the Obama administration intends to fix U.S. public diplomacy. The second paragraph says: In the...
by editor | Jan 13, 2009 | Image
by Steven R. Corman At his final news conference yesterday President Bush responded to a question about whether the nation’s image needs repairing given the “damage that Gitmo, that harsh interrogation tactics that [members of the incoming...
by gilpin | Jan 12, 2009 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Dawn R. Gilpin Israel’s deployment of social media, including a Twitter news conference over the Gaza situation, has been in the news lately. As an example of media response to these efforts in the U.S., the New York Times cited MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow as...