";s:4:"text";s:3633:"As I wrote at the time: “Having Richard Wolffe host an MSNBC program — or serving as an almost daily “political analyst” — is exactly tantamount to MSNBC’s just turning over an hour every night to a corporate lobbyist.”What possible justification exists for media outlets employing – or even giving a platform to – any lobbyists or consultants who are paid by governments and/or corporations for the specific purpose of disseminating “messaging,” meaning propaganda, on their behalf? He served in the Clinton White House as deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade policy & development. They market themselves to potential clients by touting their media platforms.
anger over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Rothkopf does denounce the Saudi leaders in the article.Screenshot from Popular.info newsletter, by Judd LegumYour email address will not be published.This is as extreme a perversion of journalism as can be imagined. UAE lobbyist and consultant David Rothkopf speaks about Saudi Arabia on MSNBC on October 16, 2018.
38°c. The Rothkopf Group is to provide the UAE’s DC embassy with day-to-day advice on messages/concepts, talking points and outreach, according to CEO David Rothkopf’s Sept. 12 letter to … terminated December 16, 2019. David Rothkopf CEO. UAE. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) spent more than $18 million last year to try to tar one Gulf neighbor and dodge the blowback against another. (In response to The Intercept’s inquiry, The Daily Beast’s Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman requested additional time to provide an on-the-record comment, which we granted by withholding publication of this article by several hours, but then he failed to provide any).On September 12, Rothkopf personally signed a contract with the UAE regime to be paid $50,000 every month, for a period of three years, to, among other services, “provide day-to-day advice on the development of messages”; to work on “media projects [and] outreach efforts”; and to “prepare memoranda [and] talking points” for the “Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to develop and support specific programs and initiatives within the United States.”Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.The Rothkopf article published on Thursday does not mention the UAE. Abu Dhabi. He is the founder and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a visiting professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a prolific author. The UAE is entitled to a 10 percent discount if it pays for a year in advance.Rothkopf is a former managing director of Kissinger Associates, the international advisory firm founded by former US Secretary Henry Kissinger. David J. Rothkopf (born 24 December 1955) is a professor of international relations, political scientist and journalist.