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Your comment appears to assume we are talking about immigrants. The article states they were trying to reach an international audience. There are many Spanish s
by asveikau 7y ago
Your comment appears to assume we are talking about immigrants. The article states they were trying to reach an international audience. There are many Spanish speakers around the world with no intention to immigrate to the United States.
- mc32 7y agoThat doesn’t make better business sense. Latin America and Iberian Europe already have great local papers obviously with local flavor and politics. The NYT wants to go in with their editorship and think they’ll do a better job? The only thing they could offer is “translate America” to a foreign audience. That’s not a whole lot. See[1] >"The paper expects its largest audiences for the new product to come from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Spain. There is also a sizable audience of Spanish speakers in the United States." [1]https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/02/en-espanol-the-new-york-times-launches-a-spanish-language-news-site-aiming-south-of-the-border/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/02/en-espanol-the-new-york-ti...
- asveikau 7y agoYeah. One place that I read when I want to know what's up in the Spanish speaking world is El Pais from Spain, which has Latin American coverage too and an overall tone pretty similar to NYT. I think that "international paper of record" status may be what they are going for, vs. "translate America". I didn't say it made business sense (they admit as much in their own announcement), but that the assumption "Spanish = immigrants" is incorrect, and explicitly not what they were trying to do. We should avoid such a US centric view of the Spanish speaking world.
- nkaka8 7y agoWhat is Iberian Europe?
- luismedel 7y agoMaybe he's trying to avoid writing "Spain"?
- cafard 7y agoWell, Spain, and Portugal, with maybe Andorra and Gibraltar thrown in. Perhaps the Portuguese papers have Spanish editions?
- JetSpiegel 7y agoNot that I'm aware, if you are educated enough to read a newspaper in Portuguese you can probably get the gist of the news in Spanish. It's not mutually intelligible, but it's simpler in writing.
- asveikau 7y agoI just remembered that the Greeks also called modern day Georgians "Iberians". Probably didn't mean to include those.
- gumby 7y agoThank you for sending me down and unexpected and thankfully not incredibly long wormhole. The loss of productivity was worth it.