Eddie Foote's interview with Rick Kiernan taped at NBC-TV
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More Notes to Collection Users -- Rick Kiernan, Chief of Media Relations for U.S. Army before the Gulf War and Director of the Joint Information Bureau in Saudi Arabia during the War for the Gulf War Coalition, was interviewed in Washington in March 2001 at NBC's Television News Studios for the 10th anniversary of conflict. General Norman Schwarzkopf's press assistant during the war, Kiernan talked on the MSNBC "Hardball" set of Chris Matthews with Avon Edward Foote, Gulf War News Collection Developer (1992 to 2001). They discussed the challenges of establishing and supervising the operation of the Joint Information Bureau for the international Gulf War allies. He described an organizational structure that required him to "speak at length" daily with public affairs officers assigned to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and U.S. General Colin Powell. Kiernan is shown at University of South Carolina Recently for Independence Day, Dr. Avon Edward Foote made presentations to his two sons of Christopher Sterling's book: Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21 Century. Sterling's expansive editorial work was published in 2008 by ABC CLIO in Santa Barbara; Denver; and Oxford, England and received outstanding reviews. Kevin Avon Foote, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is founder/CEO of FastHealth.com and FastCommand.com. His brother, Anthony Edward Foote, Roanoke, Virginia, is Media Management Consultant to Kevin's companies. Christopher Sterling and Avon Edward Foote became professionally linked decades ago when Dr. Sterling was young editor/faculty member at Temple University, Philadelphia, and Dr. Foote had same responsibilities at Ohio State, Columbus, and Ole Miss, Oxford. In preparing a topic on "Propaganda and Psychological Warfare" for the Military Communications book, Dr. Sterling cited an earlier scholarly work: Daniel C. Pollock, Project Director, The Art and Science of Psychological Operations: Case Studies of Military Application (DA PAM 525-7-1; 525-7-2). Editors: Ronald D. McLaurin, Carl F. Rosenthal, Sarah A. Skillings, and others. (Washington: Headquarters, Department of the Army, April 1976). Dr. Foote's article from the Journal of Communication is reprinted in the second volume of U.S. Army's two book set, pages 636-42.
More from Kevin Foote in 2015 The copies of Military Communications were intended to draw attention to the U.S. Government and Pentagon interests for FastCommand.com success in all terrorism threat and natural disaster services. Kevin and his father had been driving to Birmingham on I-20, 8 January, 2011 -- a quiet Saturday morning they thought -- when the Medical Center of the University of Arizona rang up the FastCommand CEO's cell phone with information of a mass shooting in Tucson. Kevin was driving a van with four passengers, so he asked his father, Dr. Foote, to take down early details of a vicious attack that was bringing an unmanageable number of web hits to the Center's system. Dr. Foote wrote quickly scant facts on a fresh candy wrapper picked from the van floor. The University Medical Center notes included announcement of the death of a nine-year-girl and the serious wounding of U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords. Listening to Kevin's dictation from the phone contact, Dr. Foote wrote mistakingly "Gabriel Gifford" for the name of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. CEO Kevin then passed authority to the FastCommand staff, who corrected transcript errors before deflecting the website to FastCommand servers. As FastCommand took control from its client, University Medical Center, Tucson, of web content/traffic, the Center turned its resources to the challenges of providing medical and community well-being during the emergency.
Representative Gabby Giffords returns to the U.S. House
BBC, London: 1991 War Flashback
In Fall 2001 issue of The Transmitter, the LAB Foundation revealed appointment of Board Member Lucille F. Luongo, longtime Senior Vice President for Communications, Katz Media Group, to President of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation. Ms. Luongo died 11 January 2006. In announcing her passing, the family requested that in lieu of flowers donations should be sent to the Broadcasters' Foundation, where Luongo had been a decade-long board member. Gordon Hastings is President of this important help organization that provides aid to former broadcasters needing health-related or other types of emergency financial assistance such as in the Katrina disaster. Make memorial gifts to the Broadcasters' Foundation Endowment Fund, 7 Lincoln Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830.
On the same page of The Transmitter, where the appointment of Lucille Luongo to President had been announced, the Library of American Broadcasting reported addition of the Avon Edward and Dorothy Gargis Foote Collection to the Hornbake Library archives. And in the Spring 2002 issue of The Transmitter, Ms. Luongo reviewed the history of the Library, and LAB plans to open joint new facilities at the University of Maryland with the National Public Broadcasting Archives.
Slide shows of various Persian Gulf War images from the Collection were first presented here as limited examples from the 1992 to 2001 Gulf War Video Collection archive at least two years before the grand opening of the Library of American Broadcasting (LAB). The GOOGLE frame from 5 days before the LAB
Information Retrieval (IR) and Persuasion -- Philip M. Taylor, University of Leeds, Institute of Communications Studies, commissioned and supervised content for an outstanding web page of links to resources on the Persian Gulf War. Taylor included the University of Maryland LAB Collection's transcript by Dr. Foote of interview with NBC's Rick Davis on the role of Public Affairs Officers in the First Gulf During the War, global perception of the British and Americans remained crucial. The Telegraph, London, 21 July 2007 See The most influential paper Gerard Salton never wrote. The article clears up misconceptions about technology and theory development in information retrieval.
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event in New York shows that during grand opening this site's home page remained the number one "Gulf War News" site of over 1,500,000. Also, Chotank's primary menu page was reported at number 5 on the GOOGLE Top 10 list of "Gulf War News" sites for the same date. Among the important GOOGLE affiliates joining the main search portal in reporting Chotank at #1 were the Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; GO.com for ABC News and ESPN; YAHOO; and CNN. GOOGLE had over 125 affiliates around the world that used its search services. But, other search engines without GOOGLE association also listed Chotank.com first or near first on 13 September including: Fast at alltheweb.com, MSN, and Hotbot from LYCOS. In early 2004, YAHOO dropped its affiliation with GOOGLE but continued to rank Chotank.com at or near first. In November 2004 GOOGLE doubled its page search to over 8 billion while keeping Chotank.com at first of nearly 4,000,000. In first half of 2006, Chotank.com was still #1, even at MSN and YAHOO. GOOGLE returned Chotank.com at first in a listing of up to 20,000,000 sites when searching for "Gulf War News", "War TV News" or "Gulf War Television" until 4 July 2010. 
War. Taylor, author of several books on propaganda, wrote an article on perception management, the information war technique developed by the U.S. Army, in the Washington Post, 30 March 2003. Foote refers in his vector theory to perceived social-psychological distance, a major factor in successful communication. 
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