老烟枪
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作者：老烟枪 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
译文在诸位海外贤达面前可能显得有点不入流，但还是一并附上吧，可能对有些网友有用
A cocktail of conspiracies delivered daily
一份贩卖阴谋论的日报
IF Hu Xijin is not the most influential editor in China, then he is certainly the most maligned.
如果胡锡进不是中国最有影响的主编，那他一定是被诟病最多的一位。
Hu is editor-in-chief of a fiercely nationalistic state-owned tabloid called the Global Times, which sells 1.5 million copies a day.
胡是一份名为《环球时报》的国营小报的总编辑，这份激烈的民族主义小报每天有150万份的销量。
In August last year the Australian government realised it had a big diplomatic problem when Hu blasted Australia on his front page three times in one week. ''Australia erects a stage for Xinjiang separatist,'' roared one banner headline, after Rebiya Kadeer's visit to Australia.
去年八月澳大利亚ZF发现自己面临一个严重的外交问题，在热比ya访问澳洲之后，澳大利亚有幸在一周之内遭到环球时报三次头版炮轰，其中一个通栏标题咆哮道：“澳大利亚为疆/独搭起舞台“
Hu studied at a military university before working his way up through the People's Daily, which is the Communist Party's mouthpiece and the mother ship for the Global Times.
在进入《日人民报》--党的喉舌和环球时报的母公司之前，胡在一所军事院校学习。
He says he personally vets each story and usually writes the paper's bellicose editorials. He has a particular talent for attracting commentaries from China's more firebrand generals, including one this week who lamented ''we have not recovered the land looted by our neighbours''.
他说他会亲自审阅每一篇稿件，并常常撰写该报好斗的社论。他在吸引中国鹰派将军们做出评论方面有特殊的天赋，其中一位最近哀叹："我们还没有收复被邻国占领的领土“
And he is every bit as uncompromising up close as he is in print.
不仅文风如此，他本人和报纸上一样强硬。
''What you portray is a distorted China, a totalitarian, uncivilised country,'' he says, from beneath forward-brushed hair, as we drink tea from paper cups in his office inside the vast People's Daily compound. He says the Global Times ''represents the true heart of the ordinary Chinese people'', to which I ventured that Chinese people did not seem remotely as aggressively paranoid as his newspaper. He told me I was ''naive'', I lacked ''education and experience'' and I was ''not qualified as a journalist''.
我们在他在日人民报大厦中的办公室里用纸杯一起喝茶，他头顶着向前梳的发型。“你们把中国描述成一个扭曲的、极权的、未开化的国家，“他如是说。他说环球时报“代表着普通中国人的真正心声”，对此我大胆反驳：中国人远不像他的报纸那样极度偏执。他的回应是告诉我我很“天真”，缺少“教育和经验”，并且“不配做一个记者”。
One of the minor delights of living in this country is rummaging through the surprisingly colourful and diverse news stands that seem to be on every second street corner. Between the swelling ranks of glossy magazines you can find courageous newspapers and current affairs journals that frequently test the limits of censorship, even though they are almost all owned by the Communist Party.
生活在这个国家的一个小小乐趣是每隔两条街你就能找到色彩斑斓且品种繁多的报刊亭。在一堆封面光鲜的杂志中间，你总能找到不断挑战审查极限的勇敢报纸和时事报道记者，即便这些报纸几乎都是党营的
And one of the uplifting aspects of working as a reporter here is meeting some of the world-class Chinese journalists and editors behind these publications. Last week I bumped into a reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily who had just spent eight months investigating a large private company that kidnapped people who were making claims for justice (''petitioners'') and stored them in ''black jails'' on behalf of local government officials. The reporter was interrogated by police and he nearly lost his job but the company he wrote about was shut down the day after his story went to print.
作为一名在这个国家工作的记者，和这些报纸背后的世界级水准的中国记者和编辑会面是一件让人振奋的事。上周我遇到了一位南方都市报的记者，他花了八个月时间调查一家绑架上访民众并代表地方官员把它们关进黑狱的大型私人企业（译注，应指安/元/鼎）。他为此被JC审讯并差点丢掉了饭碗，但这家公司在报道见报当日就被关闭了
For every Southern Metropolis Daily there are a dozen state-owned newspapers filled with the deadening palaver of propaganda and cash-envelope journalism. Nevertheless, the larger propaganda outlets can be interesting in their own ways.
在充斥着乏味的马屁宣传文章以及有偿报道的国有报纸中，南方都市报是一个异数。尽管如此，那些大型宣传机器也各有各的有趣之处
The most-read newspaper in China is the Reference News, which is essentially a heavily edited translation of foreign media reports. It has set up a sister paper, International Herald Leader, as insurance in case it gets shut down for copyright infringement. The second-biggest paper by circulation is the People's Daily, which most cadres have on their desks but cannot bring themselves to read except when they are looking for clues about the career fortunes of their colleagues.
在中国读者最多的报纸是《参考消息》，它专门发表经过严格过滤的外国媒体报道译文。它设立了一家姊妹报《国际先驱导报》，作为防止版权纠纷的防火墙。发行量第二大的报纸是日人民报，每个官员都会订阅，但很少有人看，除非是寻找事关官员仕途的线索。
And whatever you think about the Global Times, No. 3 by circulation, it is always entertaining.
发行量第三的报纸是《环球时报》，不管你怎么看待这张报纸，它总是富有娱乐性的。
Susan Shirk, who was responsible for China in the US State Department during the Clinton administration, says the Global Times's relentless conspiratorial hostility towards the United States has proved to be a leading indicator of Chinese foreign policy. ''Readers know the Global Times is close to the centre of Communist Party power and reflects the undertones of party policies,'' says Shirk, who edited a new book called Changing Media, Changing China. ''Now these suspicions are being played out openly in Beijing's foreign policies.''
克林顿执政时期在美国国务院负责中国事务的苏珊.舍克(Susan Shirk)称，环球时报对美国怀有冷酷的阴谋论式的敌意被证明是中国外交政策的一个显著风向标。“读者知道环球时报和党的权力中枢关系密切，反映的是党的政策的调子。“舍克说，她正在编辑一本新书，名字叫《变化中的媒体，变化中的中国》。“现在这些怀疑已经公开成为北京的外交政策。”
Or, as Hu puts it: ''In the past people thought the world is friendly to us, but through us, they now understand there are criticisms.''
或者，象胡主编所说的：“过去人们认为世界对我们是友好的，但是通过我们的报道，现在他们知道并不总是这样。”（译注，这句话很难理解，原文为“现在他们知道也有批评”，可能胡主编认为“友好”和“批评”是矛盾的）
The cocktail of aggression and conspiracy is a profitable one. Hu says he paid tens of millions of yuan in dividends and a further Yuan53 million in taxes last year.
这种咄咄逼人的调门和阴谋论是有商业效益的。胡主编说去年他支付了数千万的红利和5300万元的税收。
In our interview he didn't seem to care whether his missiles were aimed at me personally or my profession, my country or the wider Western world. Australia was too insignificant to lecture China: ''You are driving a cart and we are driving a truck.'' Ditto for Japan, given its entire stock of highways was no greater than China could build in a single year. And the New York Times was ''full of lies''.
在我们的采访中他看起来并不在意他的攻击是针对我个人、我的职业还是我的国家或者整个西方世界。澳大利亚的力量太小，无法对中国“说三道四”：“你们推着小推车，我们开的是大卡车。”这也适用于日本，日本全国的公路里程还比不上中国一年新建的里程。而《纽约时报》“充斥着谎言”。
On the subject of lies, I mentioned that his paper had egregiously misrepresented some of my own stories written in the Herald. He reassured me of his great personal commitment to truth and to pushing the boundaries of free speech. Earlier he had told me that Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel peace prize winner, deserved to be in prison for being ''a liar'' who advocated ''Australian-style'' democracy.
说到谎言，我提起去年他的报纸蓄意歪曲我本人发表在悉尼先驱晨报上的文章。他以个人的名义向我保证会追求真相并推进言论自由的发展。在此之前他告诉我今年的和平奖获得者，鼓吹“澳大利亚式”民主的刘xb是“一个骗子”，罪有应得。
Now, after a fortnight of WikiLeaks, which reveal that the former prime minister Kevin Rudd was privately talking of containing China while saying the opposite in public, Australian diplomats are glancing nervously at the Global Times for advance warning on how the leadership might react. But Hu's response to the Rudd revelations seemed more in pity than anger.
两周之前，维基解密公布了澳洲前总理陆克文与公开场合言论相反的关于围堵中国的私下谈话。现在澳大利亚外交官正在焦虑地关注环球时报，因为该报的言论是中国领导层对此事反应的一个提前警告。但是胡主编对陆克文的言论看起来更多的是怜悯而非愤怒。
Rudd might dream about beating down China, said Hu, but China was not Iraq. ''The reality overwhelms hysterical ideas - can you block your own iron ore ships to China?'' he said. ''You feel you are not powerful enough when competing with China in the economy and other fields, right? I am sorry about this.''
胡主编说，陆克文可能梦想着打败中国，但中国不是伊拉克。“现实是对那种歇斯底里的主张的最好回答-你们能中断你们自己对中国的铁矿石出口吗？”他说，“你们自己也觉得在经济和其他领域无力和中国竞争，对吗？我对此表示遗憾。”
原文地址： http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/a-cocktail-of-conspiracies-delivered-daily-20101217-190pb.html
作者：老烟枪 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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