New York Times about Our Female Models
Today’s issue of New York Times has an article about Belarus:
NYT. French Faces, Farewell: Belarus Has Beauties of Its Own (you might need to login to read it, but you can use a password from bugmenot.com for example)
NYT is reporting the news that are one year old, that’s something! Nothing new or interesting there anyway, except for the fact that New York Times journalists spell the adjective of the word “Belarus” in a kind of Nazi way (”BelaruSSian”). And I have no idea who’s that mister Nahorny that features so prominently in the article, although I had a friend from Minsk, Nahorny, back in college. He’s now in the US, as far as I know, doing some pretty cool things. And, by the way, my other schoolmate and old friend from Minsk received a Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston a couple days ago [Congratulations!]. I guess now, about 5 or 6 of my former classmates have Ph.D.’s from prestigious American schools. That makes me feel a bit depressed because I think of all the wasted time and wasted opportunities. But I shouldn’t complain really…
December 19th, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Well… thats the first law I find not so bad really (despite it being for Luka’s own personal interest as the article seems to imply)… I’m quite fed up with seeing these stupid french models in ads everywhere… with zero attempts to synchronize the dubbed voice over the original image… pathetic really. It also gives some Belarusian girls a chance to realize their dreams… So many girls all over the world dream of becoming a model one time or another :)
What do you mean with “NYT is reporting on the news that are one year old”? That sentence dont make any sense O.o
I’ve written an email to NYT to request a correction to be made. Took me a while to find the right email address, part of their contact pages is broken and it is also highly cluttered.
Congratulations to your friend for gaining his Ph.D.! I do know the feeling you are describing. I too _could_ have been in some prestigious school by now but it seems things arent ment to be that way. Am fine with it really, got a nice life (soon to be even better) and so many things would have otherwise not happened. Everything happends for a reason as I like to think :)
December 19th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
> What do you mean with “NYT is reporting on the news that are one year old”?
This whole thing happened on November, 2004. More than a year ago. What’s wrong with the grammar, I mean, how would you say it in correct English that they are reporting about something that took place a year ago?
December 19th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
November 19th, 2004 (!) to be precise:
http://www.svaboda.org/articlesfeatures/economics/2004/11/D711D7FD-8294-4B1C-A918-06FC20814683.html
December 20th, 2005 at 8:11 am
P.S. Internationl Herald Tribune version which does not require registration:
* http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/18/news/journal.php
Where a cover girl is girl next door
December 20th, 2005 at 9:52 am
I agree with }T{Reme - i don’t think that this particular law is such a disaster. A total ban on foreign models may be a bit too much, but there are two things that i actually support:
1. A bit of healthy protectionism is not a crime against democracy and humanity. Democratic countries do it all the time.
2. If there’s one thing that governments should control more if it wants to benefit the citizens, then it’s advertising. Advertising lies, tricks and manipulations are the worst things in liberal capitalism. There can be, of course, bad control, e.g. banning companies that don’t bribe the government, but also good control, e.g. support for increased use of the national language and that’s the kind of censorship that i wouldn’t mind.
That NYT article also mentions that 75% of the songs on the radio must be Belarussian (sic). Does it mean that the artist must live in Belarus or that the language of the song must be Belarusian? In Israel we have many radio stations, some are government-owned but most are private and uncensored. A law was passed several years ago that one of the governement stations, that until then mostly played foreign hits will from that moment on play only Israeli music. At first that law was criticized and everyone said that it would kill the popular station. But after a couple of years it became one of the most popular stations, because people knew for sure that they can always hear a song in their own language. People genuinely love it. So maybe it’s not so bad.
December 20th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
> I agree with }T{Reme - i don’t think that this particular law is such a disaster. A total ban on foreign models may be a bit too much, but there are two things that i actually support…
I also agree with that. The main idea was to point out what kind of reporting/journalism you get in the US. And NYT is supposed to be one of the best…
> That NYT article also mentions that 75% of the songs on the radio must be Belarussian (sic). Does it mean that the artist must live in Belarus or that the language of the song must be Belarusian?
The former. In fact, most FM stations abuse this rule to a large extent. They claim that if a singer was born in Belarus that’s a sufficient condition. And so they put songs by Russian singers such as Makarevich (Mashina Vremeni), Antonov, Zemliane, Lyapis, Kraski, Leprikons, etc. etc., although they left for Moscow long time ago and have almost no connection with Belarus and sing only in Russian.
And also, it seems no one is really checking on them, so I doubt that 75% is enforced.
December 20th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
Ah.. I understand what you mean now.. sorry I didnt understand before.. yes its a bit sloppy that it took a whole year for them to write an article. Should say none of this is any surprise whatsoever, the only thing that surprises me is that they actually DID wrote an article.
December 23rd, 2005 at 3:50 am
Your “friend from Minsk, Nahorny, back in college” is actually “doing some pretty cool things” in Great Britain.
Yuras’
September 17th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
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September 21st, 2006 at 1:39 pm
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June 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
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February 4th, 2008 at 3:16 am
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