
I will never forget the occasion in 2006 of producing a press conference in Bucharest – in the Romanian language….with no effective translation and a hungry pack of newly-liberated journalists. Ceausescu’s Palace (grotesque to many as an icon of a Communist super-monster, but nonetheless amazing) was the adjacent backdrop for the corporate press conference in question. It wasn’t so much the behaviour of the journalists (in a frenzy about a piece of corporate news that…