Center for Strategic Communication

Games of telephone and counter-telephone?

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — embassy or consulate — a minor detail for an editor, perhaps, but all the difference in the world for Ambassador J Christopher Stevens ] . Here’s a screen grab of a piece posted on the Atlantic site today: . The article itself...

The Shariah twins and other ads

by | Aug 26, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — attempting the unbiased exploration of nuance in often low-nuance discourses ] . As usual, billboards, pamplets and ads on the sides of buses are worth watching. Let’s start with the Shariah twins: The similarities are pretty obvious...

Tree series, II: Phototropic Simplexities

by | Jun 25, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — this one’s a prose poem: it begins with a statement so tight it needs to be unwound, and unwinds it ] . I wrote this urgently starting when it “woke” me at 4am one morning in the late 1990s or 2000, and as soon as it was...