Translation question clarification

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Mon Jun 18 16:21:36 UTC 2007


Elena Gapova wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who is trying to help.
> 
> What I mean is a kind of a "commissioned paper" (in a newspaper)
> which is disguised as if it is not and is just a journalist's own
> point of view. Just for some reason a journalist decides to write in
> a "government newspaper" that a university which was closed by the
> Belarusian government for political reasons is, in fact, a bad
> university academically and its students do not stady, but conspire
> against the government etc. e.g.

In other words, the print equivalent of an infomercial?

A near miss would be "puff piece," which is distinctly derogatory. I'll 
think of something better soon, unless someone else beats me to it.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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