A Baghdad Museum Where Culture Doesn't Seem to Count

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By: Doug Bedell

Suppose all the world's cultural institutions functioned the way the National Museum of Iraq apparently does. We would have a dearth of culture and an ipso facto case for public relations as a restorative discipline. We have a Baghdad dispatch from AINA, the Assyrian International News Agency, as our source for what it might take to interview the museum's director. Forget it. One of the world's once-great repositories of ancient culture seems in dire need of relational PR.

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Doug Bedell has a background in journalism and PR and is the owner of Resource Relations LLC in Central PA, focusing on organizational and crisis communication. He’s the community manager of SimplyFair.net, a social network on fairness. On the Web, Doug’s at www.ResourceRelations.com. On Twitter, he’s @DougBeetle.

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