[lbo-talk] Did Chavez really say Chomsky was dead, or was this an error by the NYT?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/22/06, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote for PEN-l:
> It's starting to look like Chavez never said that Chomsky was dead,
> this was an NYT error. Chavez was talking about Galbraith, the elder,
> as this reporting by Reuters indicates. Looks like the NYT bobbled it.
>
> "In his New York appearance, Chavez invoked Bolivar and his other
> favorite leaders and thinkers as he lectured Americans on their own
> history and race relations, such as slavery and the conquest of Native
> Americans.
>
> The dark-skinned, mixed race leader told New Yorkers to read Abraham
> Lincoln and Mark Twain as well as modern thinkers like Noam Chomsky
> and John Kenneth Galbraith, lamenting he could not meet Galbraith
> before he died in April at age 97."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-venezuela-chavez.html
>
> Join me in asking the NYT for verification or correction...

It looks like foreign leaders -- from Ahmadinejad to Chavez -- can
never get their words accurately transcribed, translated into English,
and reported by the media in the United States.  :->

I can spot and correct some errors in the case of Spanish-English
translation, but I am just now getting to be able to use a
Persian-English dictionary, so it will be quite some time before I may
be of service to the Iranian people.

If only my countrymen were a little more rebellious, if not quite like
the French, the Iranians, and the Venezuelans!  Will I ever get to use
my Japanese-English translation capability for a revolution in Japan?
--
Yoshie
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