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[John Dunn]

According to some sources NTV's decision to move 'Zona' to a later time was not entirely the result of grass roots pressure, but involved interventions by President Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov. Perhaps I should leave members of this list to work out for themselves the potential implications of this for how the editiorial policies of the Atlantic Monthly Review might be influenced. 

John Dunn.

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From: Michele A Berdy <maberdy at ONLINE.RU>
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:19:05 -0400
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I did get on line and read the Atlantic explanation of book review policy
, 
and, as you say, they don't ban reviews of translated works from their 

pages, but they note that they run "fewer reviews" than other comparable 

publications.  In that same issue is a review of a new translation of Don
 
Quixote.  Although the reviewer does seem to know Spanish, he doesn't 
write much about the translation or focus on the language in English; he 

says the superb new translation is good reason to reread the book, and 

here's what you'll find -- and then follows the focus of the piece, a  

cheerful cajoling of the reader to pick up the book. 

But Mona Simpson's "review" focused in large part on the language of the 

English translation itself.  And it's bizarre to do that without any touc
h 
point for the comparisons and judgments she makes -- the touch point bein
g 
the original language of the novel.  

Okay, it's tilting at windmills to fight this, but... editorial and 
broadcast policies do change under concerted pressure.  This is not quite
 
the same thing, but even here in Russia, which is not exactly a model of 

bottom-to-top, civil society, grassroots activism these days, when one of
 
the major TV networks started airing in prime time a 52-hour (or 65-hour,
 
or 175-hour -- can't recall; it was really long) series called Zona, a 

less than cheerful romp through the delights of the prison camp system, s
o 
many outraged citizens wrote and called the station to complain that they
 
bumped it to a late-night slot. The trick is in the numbers and 
consistency of complaints.  

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