The big producer of catastrophic images that PDSR (Social Democracy Party) was before the elections discovers now the civic resources of optimism We don't know whether the Nastase Cabinet is effective in reform matters. But we know that it has special communicational achievements. Who didn't notice the promptitude, the incisiveness and the market sense that the Executive proves when it answers the public questions in its area? Or who didn't feel the ability with which it proposes to the public debate issues that consume much energy (drought, mad cow disease, kitsch Balkan music, second-hand cloths an the most "civic" issue, the domestic violence), but without any important political stake? In flagrant contrast with the former power, the PDSR government shows it learned the lesson of the public communication and that it can transform it into an effective political instrument. In the PDSR camp, there are two competing standpoints as for the communication between power and society. One of them is represented by Alexandru Mironov, the other by Vasile Sebastian Dancu, Minister of Public Information. Alexandru Mironov, the famous character that once bombed us on the national TV channel with educational science fiction stories, at big audience hours, the one who last year rushed into a Romania TV studio to read a PDSR communiqué in a show where Ion Iliescu's party was criticized, the well-intended individual who proposed Gabriel Liiceanu's and Corneliu Coposu's arrestment for having sympathized with the Piata Universitate phenomenon in 1990, tries hard now to get the top position in the Romanian Society of Television, for which he has big plans. In order to reach his objective, Mironov appeals to a real electoral campaign. For instance, in a central newspaper "discretely" controlled by PDSR, there appeared an explicitly advertising page in which Mironov proposes a "program