Monday, January 16, 2006
Lost In Translation
Oops. A media boondoggle has left CNN with a bit of egg on its collective face. Apparently, a translator working for CNN misquoted the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as saying that Iran had the right to build nuclear weapons, when he actually said they had the right to nuclear power. He also added that a nation that has civilization (if you can call an Islamic theocracy "civilized") doesn't need nukes, and Iran doesn't need them, either. Iran had imposed a ban on CNN journalists, but the President is asking the governing Islamic council (again, a bad idea) to lift it and allow CNN to operate as they had before. It's a crazy, mixed up world we live in, isn't it... (Link -- via Fark)
