Hollywood might be lean and mean, but it wields "soft power"
The downside to being a hyperpower with no exports other than pop culture? Not everyone likes being force-fed Nicole Ritchie and Lindsay Lohan.
(Come to think of it, neither do Lindsay or Nicole, by the looks of them.)
Anyway, next week’s New York Times Magazine offers an interesting criticism of America’s growing “soft power” from Josef Joffe, the publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit.
“Now shift forward to the Cannes Film Festival of 2004, where hundreds of protesters denounced America’s intervention in Iraq until the police dispersed them.
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