Advertising, ad campaigns, ad agencies, and the people that make it happen

Whatever you may think of the Iraq Study Group and its recommendations, I find it a very peculiar American situation when it actually hired a Public Relations company to present itself in a favorable light to the American public. Stranger still that it should be Edelman, who have recently been shooting themselves in the foot with their amateurish blogs that pose as unpaid and overly enthusiastic Wal-Mart boosters. I guess only in America would Edelman have also deemed it diplomatically important to have the two septuagenarian chairmen pose for a photo shoot for Vogue magazine! They even had their press conferences stage managed with PR flacks informing the world’s press where they might sit. Which gives you some idea of where the $1.26million appropriated from Congress for the report is being spent.