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Topic: Buenos Aires Herald Ends Spanish Editorials
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| taost | Posted – 1/16/2008 12:00:33 PM | show profile | email poster The 131-year-old Buenos Aires Herald has decided to stop publishing its famous editorial pieces in the Spanish language. The controversial move is part of an effort to cut costs, reform the paper and make it more competitive, but critics say the paper's editorials will no longer have any influence in a country where most business and government leaders speak only Spanish. The paper gained famed in the 1970s for being critical in its editorials of Argentina's brutal military dictatorship. Argentina's government had twice forced the paper to publish its editorials in Spanish. Since then the paper has lost its way and become mainly a collection of wire stories with very little original reporting. To see the full story, as well as a copy of the Herald's public statement about its decision, click here: www.argentinepost.com or here directly: http://imaginingtaos.blogspot.com/2008/01/lost-in-translation-at-ba-herald.html Taos Turner |
