{"id":756,"date":"2010-11-04T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=756"},"modified":"2011-10-20T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:37:06","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Wrong With This Picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Cathy Barbash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within the last\u00a0six months, a\u00a0Ministry of Culture subsidiary actually hired a local foreign media expert to advise them on the use of social and other internet\u00a0media tools to\u00a0improve its cultural diplomacy (aka soft power) initiatives. 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