Comments on: RAAR FM soothens your financial problems http://mtbbusinesscommunication.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/raar-fm-soothens-your-financial-problems/ Welcome to the MTB blog. In this blog students and staff of the postgraduate programme of Multilingual Business Communication at Ghent University present their latest research, media and web finds in the fields of marketing communication, employee communication and crisis communication. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: meertaligebedrijfscommunicatie http://mtbbusinesscommunication.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/raar-fm-soothens-your-financial-problems/#comment-35 meertaligebedrijfscommunicatie Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:59:30 +0000 http://mtbbusinesscommunication.wordpress.com/?p=212#comment-35 <i> The focus and topic of your post are a bit strange. You have found a topic that is linked to crisis, but that has nothing to do with crisis communication the way it is intended on this blog. Crisis communication is about a corporate crisis and how they communicate about it. The second part of your post is a bit irrelevant.</i> On Monday the 20th of October 2008 RAAR FM presented a “financial crisis top 100”! RAAR FM is an Aruban online radio station. The top consists of 100 songs which concern the financial crisis. All listeners could send in their ideas. RAAR FM aired this program because they are fed up with the buzz around this crisis. Their advice: the best thing to do if you’re tired of a hype, is to make a top 100. Here you can see the top 10 financial crisis songs: 1 Nina Simone - Ain’t got no-I got life 2 Pink Floyd - Money 3 John Lennon - Imagine 4 Boomtown Rats - I don’t like mondays <i> [Mondays] </i> 5 Monty Python - Look on the bright side of life 6 Simply Red - Money’s too tight to mention 7 Trockener Kecks - Het komt nooit meer goed 8 Red Box - For America 9 Stone Roses - Fools gold 10 New Order - True faith You can check out the complete “top 100 financial crisis” at http://raarfm.com/year_lists/financial_crisis_top_100 ! The last time the station aired a top 100, it was much discussed . The station decided to make an “anti-homo top 100”, to act in opposition to BNN’s “homo top 100”. The chairman of the Holebi Federation of the Netherlands (HLBF) deplored this initiative. Although it was ment <i> [meant]</i>to be ironical, the HLBF decided to inform the legal instances of gay discrimination. <i> Marilyn Michels</i> The focus and topic of your post are a bit strange. You have found a topic that is linked to crisis, but that has nothing to do with crisis communication the way it is intended on this blog. Crisis communication is about a corporate crisis and how they communicate about it. The second part of your post is a bit irrelevant.

On Monday the 20th of October 2008 RAAR FM presented a “financial crisis top 100”! RAAR FM is an Aruban online radio station. The top consists of 100 songs which concern the financial crisis. All listeners could send in their ideas. RAAR FM aired this program because they are fed up with the buzz around this crisis. Their advice: the best thing to do if you’re tired of a hype, is to make a top 100.

Here you can see the top 10 financial crisis songs:

1 Nina Simone – Ain’t got no-I got life
2 Pink Floyd – Money
3 John Lennon – Imagine
4 Boomtown Rats – I don’t like mondays [Mondays]
5 Monty Python – Look on the bright side of life
6 Simply Red – Money’s too tight to mention
7 Trockener Kecks – Het komt nooit meer goed
8 Red Box – For America
9 Stone Roses – Fools gold
10 New Order – True faith

You can check out the complete “top 100 financial crisis” at http://raarfm.com/year_lists/financial_crisis_top_100 !

The last time the station aired a top 100, it was much discussed . The station decided to make an “anti-homo top 100”, to act in opposition to BNN’s “homo top 100”. The chairman of the Holebi Federation of the Netherlands (HLBF) deplored this initiative. Although it was ment [meant]to be ironical, the HLBF decided to inform the legal instances of gay discrimination.

Marilyn Michels

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