Burson-Marsteller Suffers Backlash Over Tunisian Government Contract
Someone who was employed by Burson-Marsteller in 2011 made a very ill-advised statement.
That was the primary conclusion drawn from 5W PR founder Ronn Torossian’s Friday New York Observer op-ed, which ran under the URL “the Muslim Brotherhood’s new PR agency rejects Israel” and led to inflammatory headlines like this one from Arutz Sheva:
To clarify, the word “boycott” means “a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods [produced by that group].” On
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