Curt’s Blogs

The PR Punt That Changed the Cold War


The New York Times today announced that Günter Schabowski has died, and I’m grieving because I almost feel like I knew him. We all make mistakes, or pretend that we know something when we really don’t, but it would be hard to imagine a PR slip or punt as consequential as his 1989 press announcement. Responding to a reporter’s […]

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