“How Barbara Streisand Can Help George Bush Sell the War of Ideas” with Alvin Snyder



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Alvin Snyder is a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy, where he writes an online weekly column "WorldCasting." He is the author of Warriors of Disinformation, which he wrote as a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Washington Program in Communication Policy Studies. He was the former Director of the TV and Film Service at the U.S. Information Agency, where he headed a worldwide organization involved in news and information TV and film production, program acquisition and satellite delivery systems. He served as the White House press office liaison with the network TV news bureaus on coverage of the President's Oval Office addresses to the nation for both Nixon and Ford Administrations. He also served as executive news editor and executive producer at CBS, NBC and other TV stations.

Snyder won a Grammy in 1966 for his work in the album "Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers - the War Years." He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Writers Guild of America, The National Press Club, the Federal City Club, and the Radio-TV News Directors Association.


(l-r): Nicholas Cull, Alvin Snyder, Joshua Fouts

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