Comments on: We’ve built it…will they come? http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2010/04/30/weve-built-it-will-they-come/ Tracking U.S. politics Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Arturius http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2010/04/30/weve-built-it-will-they-come/comment-page-1/#comment-407829 Arturius Sat, 01 May 2010 06:38:46 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/?p=26805#comment-407829 For another point of view, I suggest your readers check out The Atlantic's Shanghai correspondent Adam Minter's latest entry on his Shanghai Scrap blog, How could this happen? A Reporter’s Guide to the USA Pavilion Debacle at Expo 2010," April 30, 2010. http://shanghaiscrap.com/?p=5017 It's ironic on the eve of the Expo's opening to be reciting these facts again after a year and a half of alerts, but a lazy press compounded the problem. The "Blackwatering," the privatization of US public diplomacy symbolized by the US Pavilion is finally catching the press' and Congress attention. It's about time. For another point of view, I suggest your readers check out The Atlantic’s Shanghai correspondent Adam Minter’s latest entry on his Shanghai Scrap blog, How could this happen? A Reporter’s Guide to the USA Pavilion Debacle at Expo 2010,” April 30, 2010. http://shanghaiscrap.com/?p=5017

It’s ironic on the eve of the Expo’s opening to be reciting these facts again after a year and a half of alerts, but a lazy press compounded the problem. The “Blackwatering,” the privatization of US public diplomacy symbolized by the US Pavilion is finally catching the press’ and Congress attention. It’s about time.

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