Did you double check to make sure you landed on a bank’s website?
Do they really think this will help improve their image? Making their charity efforts the focus of their front page with a slick presentation might give some people the message that it is all for show.
It’s as if they don’t realize that the public considers them a tad disingenuous. Their website must have cost a fortune in design, development and consulting fees, but results completely missed the mark.
Scroll over the nav bar at the top. Under “Our Firm,” where in a typical website you might a find a rundown of products and services or a company history, you see instead “What we do for economy,” “Stimulating economic growth,” and “Strengthening the financial system.” Another tab is “Citzenship,” and another is “Ideas,” such as “Education and health” and “environment and energy.” Ugh.
This whole effort reflects enormous contempt for the public — throw some money around, put ethnic looking women on your front page, and people will forget about the mortgage bubble, the backdoor bailout via AIG, and suspicians that the sources of their $100M in daily trading profits might not be entirely ethical.
There’s the same kind of arrogance coming from all different circles in Washington and Wall Street. For example, Obama chalks up the failure of his health plan to the idea that they “didn’t explain it to the American people well enough.”
The anti-reality bubble in New York and DC is so powerful they’re really incapable of believing that there is an informed, well-reasoned view that they’re all a pack of thieving jackals.