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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Barry Newman, Today's News, Brought to You by Your Friends at the CIA; Spy
Service Translates World's Papers at Secret Cost; Mr. Hounsell Has Few
Buyers. Wall Street Journal, Feb 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014
24052748704629004576136381178584352.html
Note:
(a) up to snuff: "of sufficient quality : meeting an applicable standard"
www.m-w.com
(b) Urdu is an official language of Pakistan.
(c) World News Connection
http://wnc.fedworld.gov/
, which is subcription based.
(c) Persian language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language
(local name: Farsi)
(d) The report says, "Mr. Hounsell's answer: copyright. The CIA circulates
Vladimir Putin's speeches inside the government, but WCN needs permission to
sell them—and it has to pay royalties to agencies that publish them. Mr.
Hounsell spends his days mailing letters (in English) to faraway newspapers
or radio stations, pleading for clearance. If they don't agree, WNC erases
their content.
The "permission to sell" news reports and "pay royalties" mean permission
from foreign news agencies (public or private) and payment of royalties to
those agencies, which produce the content in the first place.
(e) Nouakchott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouakchott
(believed translation from Berber "The place of the winds", Nawākšū&#
7789;; the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania)
(f) Kiev is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.
(g) Dinamina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinamina
(Founded on December 17 1909, the Dinamina (meaning 'daily gem', a reference
to the sun) is a Sinhalese daily that claims the largest circulation among
Sinhalese-speaking peoples in Sri Lanka)
(h) Balochistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan
(Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region; divided by three
nations: Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan)
(i) Krungthep Thurakit is a newspaper published in Thai (no English).
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