10.16.2005

US Ad Chief: US Government Does Nothing to Combat Anti-Americanism and it Costs Us All

From the Times-Dispatch:

WILLIAMSBURG -- A surge of hostility toward Americans in other countries will hurt U.S. businesses unless they act to reverse the trend, an advertising executive told Virginia business and government leaders yesterday.

"Sooner or later, anti-Americanism is bad for business," said Keith Reinhard, chairman of the New York advertising firm DDB Worldwide. Reinhard also is the founder and president of Business for Diplomatic Action, which is organizing U.S. companies in a private-sector initiative to improve America's image in the world.
Meanwhile, the push to de-fund public schools and take real science out of the curriculum is turning out college grads who don't know the basics of science or virtually anything else. Nice work, Bushies!