Good Linkage: 5.19.2009

5.19: For all those nation/place branding folks, Heidi Sinclair authored  an interesting piece on HufPo about the potential evolution of corporations becoming media sources.  While I find it difficult to believe that I would turn to Nike for sports information over an already established media empire like ESPN of SI, I think there are some lessons [...]

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Listen: Apologies don’t make up for civilian deaths

From an interview for the Spring 2009 New Perspectives Quarterly, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the following about civilian casualties in Afghanistan (emphasis added): I’m surprised that people, after having been bombed many, many times over, with their children and families killed, torn to pieces, still come to me as their president … The international [...]

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