Petraeus the Communicator
There were no real surprises on Capitol Hill when General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker showed up yesterday to present their reports. This was due, in large part, to the success that Petraeus had in...
View ArticleBloomberg’s PR Problems
Michael Bloomberg has been a PR genius as New York’s chief executive. The press, as in a Time magazine story, has been known to swoon over the grandeur of his ideas and give him credit for promises...
View ArticleEvil Empire Symphonies
The announcement that the New York Philharmonic likely will travel to North Korea next February, at the behest of that country’s Culture Ministry, brings up memories of orchestral maneuvers during cold...
View ArticleGoogle Gets Sued
Even though it has been repeatedly exposed, American cooperation with and assistance to the Chinese police state continues. Former Nanjing University professor Guo Quan is suing Google for excising his...
View ArticleUN: Palestinian Terrorism “Inevitable”
According to the Associated Press, a new UN report deems Palestinian terrorism the “inevitable consequence” of Israeli occupation. One has to ask: was terrorism the “inevitable” result of handing over...
View ArticleThe Protocols of the Elders of Amazon
A few years ago, the Goliath of online booksellers, Amazon.com, purchased a company called BookSurge which offers on-demand publishing of thousands of books. Rather than keep an inventory of books in a...
View ArticleStop the Presses!
Hold the front page! Heck, on second thought, hold three full inside pages as well. Notify the Pulitzer jurors. The New York Times has a blockbuster scoop. Its ace reporter, David Barstow, has...
View ArticleNIAC’s PR Offensive
As the NIAC and Trita Parsi story unfolds in the wake of Eli Lake’s bombshell story, it is interesting to note just how it might be that many on the Left are simultaneously reaching the same...
View ArticleDialogue with the Wrong American Muslim Partners
The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration has come a long way from the president’s campaign practices that had him keeping his distance from Muslims. According to the paper’s Andrea...
View ArticleWEB EXCLUSIVE: The Cost of Realism
BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN For anyone who has witnessed the slow erosion of democracy in Russia over the past decade, seeing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin win the public relations war over the recent...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The Associated Press or National Review? On SestakGate: “Crimping his carefully crafted outsider image and undercutting a centerpiece of his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama got caught playing the...
View ArticleThe Malaysia Example
Jackson Diehl, in an immensely important column, writes: Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of Malaysia’s political opposition, has become known over the past decade as one of the foremost advocates of liberal...
View ArticleLivni’s Hypocrisy and Israel’s PR Problem
Israel was a sideshow in the latest WikiLeaks document dump, but the leaked cables did include one noteworthy nugget from Jerusalem: in January 2007, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who today is...
View ArticlePalestinians’ UN Gambit Puts Both Israel and Obama on the Spot
The news that the Palestinian Authority is expected to try to use the United Nations Security Council to label any Israeli presence in the West Bank and Jerusalem “illegal” is hardly a surprise to...
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