Office of Media Outreach

Office of Media Outreach

U.S. Department of Defense

• Al Hurra
• "Truth Tour"

"The tour was organized by Move America Forward (MAF), an organization that, according to the Washington Post, owes much of its existence to the good offices" of Russo Marsh & Rogers. "The Office of Media Outreach, a taxpayer-funded publicity arm of the Department of Defense, also sponsored the tour."

The "purpose of the 'Truth Tour' was 'to report the good news on Operation Iraqi Freedom you're not hearing from the old line news media ... to get the news straight from our troops serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the positive developments and successes they are achieving'." [1]

U.S. Department of State

The Office of Media Outreach at the U.S. Department of State

Personnel

• Yvonne Ralsky, Director
• Price Floyd, Deputy Counselor of the Department (European & Eurasian Affairs, International Org. Affairs, Econ., Business & Agricultural Affairs)
• Carolyn Fleming (African Affairs, Consular Affairs, Human Resources, Office of Civil Rights, Management, Legal)
• Mary Thomas (Global Affairs; International Women's Issues, Global AIDS Coordinator, Trafficking in Persons, Oceans, Enviro, & Scientific Research, Population, Refugees & Migration, South Asian Affairs, Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor)
• Rainy Young (Education and Cultural Affairs, Political Affairs, East Asian & Pacific Affairs, Public Affairs, International Information Programs, War Crimes Issues)
• Courtney Gidner (Counterterrorism Coordinator, Near Eastern Affairs, Int'l Security & Arms Control, Political-Military Affairs, Verification and Compliance)
• Shai Korman (Int'l Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Millennium Challenge Corp., Western Hemisphere Affairs, Diplomatic Security, Policy Planning)

Contact Information

Phone: 202 647-0001
Email: PARMOGroup AT State.Gov
Website: http://newsmaker.state.gov/alpha.aspx

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Post-war Iraq (See section on Media.)
• September 11, 2001: 4th Anniversary "Freedom Walk"
• "Truth Tour"

External links

• AltHippo, "'Freedom Walk' 'Truth Tour' Have Much in Common," TPM Cafe, August 19, 2005: Is it possible that "the Office of Media Outreach and America Supports You are just the Office of Strategic Influence under a new name"?
• Nell Schaefer, "A Scripted War," The Student Underground, Issue 56 April 2006.

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