Talk:Layalina Productions

Ten years later, as Ambassador to NATO, I saw a well-executed communications strategy change attitudes at a critical phase in history. In the early 1980s, strong popular opposition in three NATO countries threatened to derail our plans to deploy Pershing and cruise missiles in order to counter Soviet SS-20s, which were deployed as part of a Soviet strategy of nuclear blackmail designed to split the alliance. We turned the tide of public opinion with a communications strategy and vigorous diplomacy, supported by the White House and the Congress, and executed through the extraordinary machinery of the United States Information Agency. This campaign helped us turn the corner and start down the road toward the end of the Cold War. http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/resources/public-diplomacy-programs/David_Abshire_testimony.pdf

Billy, some queries:

'Yonder stands your orphan with his gun'

not sure what this heading referes to? If it is a relevant quote can you source it? Otherwise put in a literal heading.

I don't understand the following para: Fairbanks concerns over his business interests are shared generally by US elites according to Emmanuel Evita partnerships, such as the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, are adopting "a proactive approach to head off the impact of anti-Americanism to their bottom lines in the long term". Jeffery Werner, chairman of the TBD stated:

"The Transatlantic Business Dialogue is not looking to replace what the government does — the state does diplomacy — we are just looking to provide industry input (where damaged political relationships might affect industry)."

What concerns does Fairbanks have? Can you spell them out? Also the punctuation seems to break down between 'Evita' and 'partnerships'. should that be a new sentence? Is the Evita ref the source of the succeeding quote? If so can you make that clear?

This sentence is opaque:

Layalina are taking the 'reality TV' approach but the stentorian barking of their advisors drowns out the 'soft power' guise as material reality that fuels resistance.

So we need to use a phrase like 'stentorian barking'? The rest of the sentence is too convoluted for me to make sense of. Can you clarify?