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To: jtal

> No Pravda Radio.

Good pun! I like that.

Pravda means “TRuth”

Russians used to use the names of their two top “news” agencies this way, and I’ll do this phonetically, “S pravda nee isvestia, s isvestia nee pravda,” which means, “In the truth there is no news, and in the news there is no truth.”

Looks like NPR is a good example of exactly that.


87 posted on 10/20/2010 9:25:20 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook

Good catch - my post was inspired by the pravda/izvestia joke you mention.

-jtal who took russian “for fun” 22 yrs ago


371 posted on 10/21/2010 8:00:18 PM PDT by jtal
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