TCS: Tech Central Station - Poland Keeps Smiling:
"There was a famous joke in the communist era that the foot (in Polish 'foot'
and 'rate' are homonyms) should be wrapped up in newspaper for it grows the
fastest in the press. The origin of the joke was that the press was constantly
feeding us with great news about the state of our economy, even when the
reality was quite different. People learned that the more the depressing the
reality, the more optimistic the news. "
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www.transparency.org/cpi/2004/cpi2004_faq.en.html#nine
