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An Act of Political Cowardice
Gawker ^ | 09/14/2009 | Gabriel Snyder

Posted on 09/14/2009 8:28:37 AM PDT by fiscon1

In an act of publishing cowardice, Condé Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a GQ article criticizing Vladimir Putin. As a public service, we're running it here and ask for your help in translating it.

(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: gq; putin; russia

1 posted on 09/14/2009 8:28:38 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

Conde Nast owns Vanity Fair and GQ as well as other publications, including Russian versions of GQ, Glamour, Tatler and Vogue. On July 23, Jerry S. Birenz, one of the company’s top lawyers, sent an e-mail memo to more than a dozen corporate executives and GQ editors.

“Conde Nast management has decided that the September issue of U.S. GQ magazine containing Scott Anderson’s article ‘Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power’ should not be distributed in Russia,” Birenz wrote.


2 posted on 09/14/2009 8:42:12 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: fiscon1

This is pretty much what we have come to expect from the global socialist media.


3 posted on 09/14/2009 8:43:19 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: fiscon1

I can halfway translate it, but I haven’t been able to find the English translation that they say is ready.

Do you have the link for that?


4 posted on 09/14/2009 8:46:03 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fiscon1

All we need do is “Re-set” (or “Over-load” per HRC).


5 posted on 09/14/2009 8:46:20 AM PDT by kenavi (No legislation longer than the Constitution.)
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To: editor-surveyor

I thought GWB was able to look into Putin’s eyes and see his soul?

” “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.

“I was able to get a sense of his soul.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1392791.stm


6 posted on 09/14/2009 8:52:51 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Conde Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a GQ article criticizing Vladimir Putin.
Maybe they heard about the polonium caper.
7 posted on 09/30/2009 7:10:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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