Howdy folks, sorry for disappearing for so long, I've had rough times lately. Hope you didnot miss Tom Wilson's Lost in Translation about the discontinuity between Romanians' obsession about the image foreigners have about Romania (arguably inherited from Ceausescu's time) and the inability of a national promotion of a picture (at least) closer to the reality. Naturally, the question that comes in mind is what would be the first things a foreigner would think about Romania if he/she were to get informed from the international media. Stray dogs? Orphan people/adoption briberies? Corruption? None of them? Unlikely. All of them? Perhaps.

Mmm, that is I think the main problem - I would like to see more about the beautiful landscapes, more about easygoing and hospitable people, about cool places to hang out in the cities, perhpas more about the tremendous business opportunities. You can find anything for any taste. Unfortunately, the problem is not that the media is not reflecting any of these but the fact that we don't do anything at all for changing it, in spite of the above claimed national obsession about our international image. Reporters need stories - there's plenty of interesting ones around, how come that only the most horrible ones come up? That is a rethorical question of course, fact is we have no idea how to sell ourselves and what our core values are. We are just lost in translation.