“Some countries just can’t catch a break. Blinded by the bright hot lights of international scrutiny, a flock of black sheep within the family of nations is losing its way, repeatedly roaming on to the world’s headlines – for all the wrong reasons…To counter the bad press, a rebranding is in order. But first the world’s tin pan tyrants and impotent governments need to acknowledge that their brand is no longer achieving the desired result (carte blanche to rape and pillage domestically; traffic in death, drugs and other assorted mayhem internationally)…Branding in an online environment has a much shorter time frame than branding through traditional media. With the world’s digitized attention span shrinking to the size of a goldfish, the news moves quickly – and is quickly forgotten….”
Read the entire piece as it appears in the Times of Israel: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-you-for-visiting-the-islamic-republic-of-fred/
You, if you haven’t started already, must write a book! Your writing is sharp, brilliant, funny and very readable.
Hi Bathsheva,
Thank you kindly for the positive feedback. A book, you say? Hmm..How’s about this for a working title: “Axis of Lame: The Rebranding of the World’s Great Stink Holes?” Or perhaps: “From Fascist to Fabulous: Getting the World to Love you, or at least the United Nations to Ignore you”. Lemme know what you think.
Take care,
Gidon