Thursday, April 24, 2008

Bad --> Good

Image from Charlie Hebdo

The main mission for people working with Public Relations is to alter negative or neutral attitudes into positive.
"Clients not satisfied" need to become "Clients satisfied". "Sad" turns "happy" and "unaware" becomes "aware".

In the French government In-house PR department, devoted people work assumable around the clock to turn Chaos into Normal.
Here follows some sub-missions to enable such a project


Sarkozy”the unreliable"--> Sarkozy”the implacable"

According to a recent poll, 67 % of the French say "mostly not satisfying" to Sarkozy's first year as president. 59 % think that the year has been a downfall for French. Only 20 % of them were positive to the Sarko's first year of reign. What trick will you poll now Carla?



Chinese boycott of French companies --> Carrefour’s own brand filling up Chinese cupboards.

Internet users strike back on the French protests when the Olympic fire was to be lit in Paris. Some Chinese feel offended by France stand point in the Olympic- matter, and want to take revenge by boycotting French companies. For Carrefour, one of the main targets for the boycott, the near future is looking very unsure. Carrefour is one of the most popular super markets in China, and losing market value would mean a significant loss for the giant. Other companies threatened are Louis Vuitton, Dior and Peugeot.



Discontent among workers ----> people enjoying working in unfair conditions for unfair salary.

Discontent among worker seems to have been a general trend throughout the first year of Nicolas Sarkozy’s regime.
Now, the Minister of national education, Xavier Darcos, suggests a reform to limit the national number of teachers. So once again teachers and students dusted off their revolution flags, grabbed some flyers and formed with the syndicate a powerful strike against the reforms.



The other group to strike is the “sans-papier”, without papers. These are individuals that have worked for France for a longer time but never gotten a legal security from the French government. These are also individuals that have been paying taxes, and that are getting tired of give give give, and never get anything in return.


As Nicolas Sarkozy and Xavier Darcos probably will have a hard time to get people used to the unfair conditions, they need to look for other solutions.


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