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The Practice of Government Public Relations
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The Practice of Government Public Relations

by Mordecai Lee, Grant Neeley, Kendra Stewart
August 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
272 pages
8h 45m
English
CRC Press
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Doing Right and Avoiding Wrong with the Law and Politicians ◾  189
times. e job of the Department of Defense (DOD) is to defend the nation from
attacks, and to ght wars as directed. e DOD is free to inform the president and
Congress about its views of any particular confrontation either before or during the
ght. But it runs great political risks when it attempts to sell a war to the public.
Not long after the start of the Iraq War in March 2003, the DOD began propa-
gating a story about the heroics of Private Jessica Lynch, who ercely fought an
ambush before being captured and abused. (It was barely half true.)
11
A year later,
the DOD told another tall tale, claiming that former football star Patrick Tillman
had died while ghting in
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ISBN: 9781439834657