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Everybody loves me baby . . . "To know America is to love America?. Advertising maven Charlotte Beers is trying to sell the U.S. to the Muslim world, but nobody's buying it. [Salon.com] Here's a fun game: Combine the following quotation from this story with some article below and guess whether Muslims abroad are buying what she's selling. Here's the quotation:

According to Beers, America's information offensive is off to a grand start, putting out messages that are "believable and always true and accurate," she says. One of her first salvos was a series of mini-documentaries about happy American Muslims, designed to show Muslims abroad that the war on terror isn't a clash of civilizations.

Now, you have to guess which story below goes with this quotation, and you have to guess the reaction of Muslims to both. Tricky, huh!" [The Decline and Fall of the American Empire]

Sadly, we seem to be more committed to examining our propoganda than our policy.  Jackson Diehl argues recently in the Washington Post that our revisions to our broadcasts to Iran reflect this emphasis of style over substance, with American pop culture replacing substantive news. Anne Applebaum chimed in a short time later on the administration's neglect of democratic movements in Iran.

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