Did you catch this colourful quarter page advertisement on page A9 of the Washington Post today? It certainly caught my attention as I was trying to read about the situation in the Ukraine. Perhaps of course because I work in the advertising industry now and pay closer attentions to ads. And perhaps of course because I know that Europe 1 is a French news radio station... So what's a French radio station doing advertising in Washington DC's newspaper? Courting the francophone audience that could tune in online? Not really... Officially Europe 1 is trying to score an interview with the American president. But really, the cheeky ad that plays on the usual American clichés of France ...