Mandy Liefbowitz on Thu, 12 Jul 2018
03:33:52 +0100 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:56:01 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Mandy Liefbowitz on Thu, 12 Jul 2018
02:10:00 +0100 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 13:29:27 +0100, Java Jive
wrote:

On 08/07/2018 20:56, pyotr filipivich wrote:

"Mayayana" on Sun, 8 Jul 2018 12:10:23 -0400
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:

| "pyotr filipivich" wrote
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| Eta Pravda!

Actually, though I had to stop and think, I did know that this was
Russian, and that it meant "That's true!" - I studied Russian for a
year at school before I decided I was better at maths and science!

Hmm, my first, idiotic, translation of that was Asterix-Russian for
"I chewed up and swallowed a popular Russian newspaper."

There were two papers in the Soviet Union: Pravda - the party
paper; and Izvestia - for general news. Pravda means "Truth",
Izvestia means "News".
And there was a saying that "There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and
there is no Izvestia in Pravda" or in English "There is no truth in
News, and there is no news in Truth."

So, very like English newspapers of the early 21st Century, then?
Mand.

Save that few English newspapers would be so bold as to be named
"Truth".

On the other hand, a lot of American newspapers have (or had)
Democrat ort Republican in their name, because there was a time when
that signified their editorial / political policy.

And on the gripping hand, from that font of wisdom the BBC:

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the
papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the
country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run
the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the
country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the
country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be
run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who
think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's
got big tits.

tschus
pyotr
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