Japan Times, New York Times announce publishing agreement
The Japan Times announced Monday that it had signed a publishing agreement with The New York Times Co. in the Japanese market.The agreement will see the print edition of The Japan Times bundled with the International New York Times from Monday to Saturday. The first issue of the combined product, which will be known as The Japan Times/International New York Times, will be published on Oct. 16.
The International New York Times is currently known as the International Herald Tribune. On Feb. 25, the New York Times Company announced that its Paris-based sister publication will be re-branded as an international version of The New York Times and will be tailored and edited specifically for global audiences.
In announcing the agreement, Takeharu Tsutsumi, president of The Japan Times, emphasized the benefits that the new product will offer readers. “The Japan Times will remain a proudly independent newspaper, and will continue to offer our readers the very best in English-language journalism available in Japan. By packaging The Japan Times with the International New York Times, we will also provide our readers with the global edition of one of the best-known and most widely respected newspapers in the world,” Tsutsumi said.
The JT/INYT will consist of two separate sections. The front section will feature the same Japan Times content that current readers enjoy. The back section will be edited from the Hong Kong, New York, Paris and London offices of the International New York Times and will draw on the global network and vast journalistic resources of The New York Times.
Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, the publisher of the International New York Times, said: “We are thrilled that the International New York Times will be made available to Japan Times readers later this year.
“As the International Herald Tribune, we have built a reputation as the premier source of news, opinion and commentary for global citizens, and as the International New York Times we will further build on this distinctive international voice.”
Subscribers to JT/INYT will also enjoy significant benefits in the digital domain, including unlimited free access to the New York Times’ popular website, NYTimes.com, and NYTimes-branded apps for use on smartphones and tablets.
On Sundays, when there will be no JT/INYT, The Japan Times will publish a separate newspaper that will be delivered to JT/INYT subscribers and sold at newsstands.
Newsstand prices and subscription rates for the JT/INYT have not yet been determined, although Japan Times President Tsutsumi said he intends to set them competitively, taking into consideration the circumstances of the market.
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- ...Economist print edition --- On Language Diplolingo By WILLIAM SAFIRE Published: June 11, 2006 After inflicting heavy casualties on Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army...《詳全文》
Safire's Political Dictionary
ISBN13: 9780195340617ISBN10: 0195340612 paper, 896 pages
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When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit.Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics , which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today.
Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation , and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance.
For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.
Features
- Just in time for the 2008 presidential election, American's leading language expert cuts through the linguistic fog to explain what the words of our politicians really mean
Reviews
"Compiles political terminology definitions that are discursive, historical and entertaining." --Publishers Weekly"What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). Last updated in 1993, before the U.S. political lexicon had acquired "soccer moms" (1996), "fuzzy math" (2000) and "Swift Boat spot" (2004), the book's newest version includes rich linguistic bequeathals from both the Clinton and second Bush White Houses."--Newsweek
"William Safire's Language and Politics has long been used as a source of definitions for insider words and phrases commonly used in politics. Updated and expanded for the first time since 1993, Safire renames the book and adds items like "war on terror," "chad" and "axis of evil" to the collection. Containing not only words' definitions, but also their history, Safire explains each entry in an informative, witty and easy-to-read way." --Campaigns & Elections
"Safire gives us straightforward definitions and fascinating etymologies for the common and uncommon political terms of American history...Clearly Safire's Political Dictionary has many uses, and not just as a tool for looking up "moonbat" and "dead cat bounce." It provides definitions, etymologies, and examples of usage for any political word or phrase in the American vocabulary, and always with a dash of class and humor."--First Things
"Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America...For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship." --Dictionary.com
About the Author(s)
William Safire began his writing career as a speechwriter in the Nixon Administration, became a columnist with the New York Times --as its resident token conservative--and has for many years written a weekly "On Language" column in the New York Times magazine. His many books include Lend Me Your Ears, How Not to Write, Scandalmonger , and Wit and Wisdom . He lives in New York City.
Review: Safire's 'Dictionary' adds definition to politi-speak
In print: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Elections are difficult for Floridians. No need to bring up 2000 when the Sunshine State's role in 2008 has already caused consternation from West Palm Beach to Walla Walla.
Thank goodness, then, for Safire's Political Dictionary, the fifth edition of which is now available for public consumption. With the fate of Florida's Democratic delegates decided (Howard Dean: "Cut with a sword each delegate into two pieces, and give each candidate half!"), Floridians have a useful manual with which to decipher the rest of the process.
This dictionary is no dry specimen, though. It's a really interesting read. Many have heard of the three-martini lunch, for example, but how many know the phrase was birthed as a symbol of tax unfairness, surfacing in a speech by Florida Gov. Reubin Askew in 1972? Speaking at the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, Askew said of average Americans, "What can we expect them to think, when the business lunch of steak and martinis is tax-deductible, but the workingman's lunch of salami and cheese is not?"
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, "picked up the 'martini lunch' and improved it: 'The rich businessman can deduct his three-martini lunch, but you can't take off the price of a baloney sandwich." Safire winds down the entry with a joke — "Recipe for a Johnson (or Nixon, Carter, or Bush 41) cocktail: economy on the rocks" — and concludes, "For the metaphoric use of delicatessen meats, see BALONEY and SALAMI TACTICS."
What readers of Safire's Political Dictionary will learn is what readers of his weekly "On Language" pieces already know: Safire loves to play with words. That's why the former Nixon-Agnew speechwriter (Spiro Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism" was Safire's) and longtime columnist is such a joy to read, whether one is a knee-jerk liberal or throws in his lot with the dinosaur wing.
Liam Julian is a St. Petersburg native and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
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Review: Safire's 'Dictionary' adds definition to politi-speak
By Liam Julian, Special to the Times
In print: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Elections are difficult for Floridians. No need to bring up 2000 when the Sunshine State's role in 2008 has already caused consternation from West Palm Beach to Walla Walla.
Thank goodness, then, for Safire's Political Dictionary, the fifth edition of which is now available for public consumption. With the fate of Florida's Democratic delegates decided (Howard Dean: "Cut with a sword each delegate into two pieces, and give each candidate half!"), Floridians have a useful manual with which to decipher the rest of the process.
This dictionary is no dry specimen, though. It's a really interesting read. Many have heard of the three-martini lunch, for example, but how many know the phrase was birthed as a symbol of tax unfairness, surfacing in a speech by Florida Gov. Reubin Askew in 1972? Speaking at the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, Askew said of average Americans, "What can we expect them to think, when the business lunch of steak and martinis is tax-deductible, but the workingman's lunch of salami and cheese is not?"
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, "picked up the 'martini lunch' and improved it: 'The rich businessman can deduct his three-martini lunch, but you can't take off the price of a baloney sandwich." Safire winds down the entry with a joke — "Recipe for a Johnson (or Nixon, Carter, or Bush 41) cocktail: economy on the rocks" — and concludes, "For the metaphoric use of delicatessen meats, see BALONEY and SALAMI TACTICS."
What readers of Safire's Political Dictionary will learn is what readers of his weekly "On Language" pieces already know: Safire loves to play with words. That's why the former Nixon-Agnew speechwriter (Spiro Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism" was Safire's) and longtime columnist is such a joy to read, whether one is a knee-jerk liberal or throws in his lot with the dinosaur wing.
Liam Julian is a St. Petersburg native and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Safire's Political Dictionary
By William Safire
Oxford University Press, 896 pages, $22.95
By William Safire
Oxford University Press, 896 pages, $22.95
[Last modified: Jun 14, 2008 04:30 AM]
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