Paul Holmes points us to a story that we need to make sure stays in the news. The Lincoln Group and its exploits in Iraq need to be thoroughly exposed so that they don't come to represent in people's minds what public relations is about.
On the same front page of the New York Times is a story from China with this lead paragraph:
"A dozen former Communist Party officials, including a onetime secretary to Mao, a party propaganda chief and the retired bosses of some of the country's most powerful newspapers, have denounced the recent closing of a prominent news journal, helping to fuel a growing backlash against censorship."
Here is the full story.
I think this presents an interesting juxtaposition of communications around the world. The world's leading democracy paying millions of dollars to an unqualified group interested only in the money to propagandize in the Muslim world versus influentials in the world's largest and one of the most closed societies decrying government censorship. I doubt that either represents the majority thinking in the US or in China yet but I do think both are indicators of the direction each of us could be heading. In the case of the United States, that is why we need to make sure the light shines bright on the Lincoln Group. And we can hope that those voices against censorship in China gain strength.
What do you think?
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