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The doyen of British dailies (est. 1785). Despite its wide circulation, The Times, long revered the world over as the British establishment’s mouthpiece and newspaper of record, has seen its influence gradually wane after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought it up in 1981. It has been perceptibly popularised ever since, with greater prominence given to sports and celebrities. With a view to attracting young readers, the paper adopted a compact format in 2004.
Its Web site also features The Times Literary Supplement (TLS for short), the leading British review of its kind, as well as some multimedia content and “Comment Central”, which posts blogs not only by staffers but also by their peers at other Anglo-American papers. Its archives reproduce – for a fee – facsimiles of back issues since the 18th century.
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When presseurop.eu was launched in May last year, one of its guiding mottos was Umberto Eco’s “The future of Europe is translation.” But sometimes I’m inclined to think that the future of Europe is lost in translation. I recently checked a statement by Angela Merkel concerning the CD-rom nabbed by HSBC supergrass Hervé Falciani containing data on Germans who have siphoned off their money to Switzerland in order to avoid taxes back home.