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April 09, 2007

Max Clifford on propaganda and Iran

With controversy building about the decision to allow the British Navy Personnel captured by Iran to sell their stories, the BBC has an interesting interview with the PR specialist Max Clifford - listen again here (about 10mins in).

Clifford argues that this is part of a propaganda exercise on behalf of the UK government. If so, it's an interesting example of blurring boundaries between the media and military (the navy personnel are allowed to sell their stories individually, instead of their stories just being incorporated into an 'official' military statement). Not, by the looks of it, particularly successful propaganda, though.

Posted by jon_mendel at April 9, 2007 08:09 PM

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