"Dear ---,
"I hope you receive this message.
Did you find that [Professor Robert] Albro's article ['The Hard and Soft of Cultural Diplomacy: Networks and Stories in Global Affairs'] was a monument to gibberish? And what is a 'public policy anthropologist' anyway?
'partial privileging', 'conjoined', 'Information brokers" (This reminded me of the POMs - Public Opinion Molders - in our [USIA] day), 'network centrality', 'Their analysis privileged connections that were highly assortative.' Maybe I am dense, but his piece did not connect with me.
'Assort' in my dictionary is defined as 'classify'. Why does he not use the simpler verb?
It brought be back to the [USIA] motto over the door of 1776 Pennsylvania:
'Telling America's Story to the World' - Now that is soft power!
All best,
Phil" [Pillsbury]
Retired US Foreign Service officer
Posted here with Mr. Pillsbury's kind permission.
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