Well it’s Monday and about half of Romania is officially off of work for the big four-day weekend (tomorrow is May 1 in case you’re unaware and a major holiday) and the half that is “working” today will be doing it at half speed and ducking out of the office as soon as possible. But in my book it’s still Monday and time to get … Continue reading The Illusion of Choice
I noticed that the little marketing monkeys at CSOP (for more on them, see below) put out their latest poll today. If you speak Romanian, click on the link for the entire breakdown. Nonetheless, I thought it was mighty interesting to see Daddy Isarescu (albeit still quite low) continues to be the person most Romanians have trust in. Considering he hasn’t held political office in … Continue reading Cine Are Increderea Are
Well although I have no way of knowing the audience numbers for Romanian TV I have come across an organization which tracks sales for printed publications. In their report for 2011 (the most recent available) you can see that Click! easily comes in first place with over 166,000 daily readers. In comparison, the number one “hard news” paper (for much more of my take on … Continue reading Mutler Was Right
The other day a reader mentioned the 1976 movie Network and I certainly understand why. In case you’ve never seen the movie, it starts with a older man (Mr. Beale) who is about to be fired from his job reading the news on television. He gets very depressed and angry and on his last broadcast gives a blistering speech about a number of issues. Wikipedia … Continue reading A Radiant Eruption of Democracy
I’ve already written extensively about what Romanians aren’t learning about public relations. Now it’s time to learn a bit more about what nobody will teach you about psychology. Today as I was watching the news (as always, with the sound off), I leapt from my chair and shouted the words, “Tactical fucking masterstroke!” In the same day I saw (on various channels) Jeffrey Franks, Mugur … Continue reading Bamboozled
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