Misinterpreting the anchor...

[alexpgp]

There is an old Woody Allen line that runs: "What if Khrushchev wanted peace, but his interpreter wanted war?" It muses on what might happen if what a world leader were to say was turned around by the leader's interpreter.

Well, in one of those classic cases of life imitating art, it turns out that a sign language presenter at the Ukrainian UT-1 television station got sick and tired of what she was being told to interpret, and put her own slant on the news.

From MosNews.com:

Natalia Dmitruk, a sign language presenter with the Ukrainian TV channel UT-1 has ignored the text read by the news presenter and instead transmitted the message that the results of the elections were rigged, Russia’s NTV television reports.

Dmitruk rebelled during the morning news broadcast on Thursday. The Visti news program is the only program on Ukrainian television adapted for people with hearing difficulties.

During the broadcast, the sign language presenter ignored the text about the results of the presidential elections read by presenter Tatyana Kravchenko and instead transmitted the following:

“The results announced by the Central Electoral Commission are rigged. Do not believe them. Our president is Yushchenko. I am very disappointed by the fact that I had to interpret lies. I will not do it any more. I do not know if you will see me again.”

No kidding about that last. Talk about your basic non-career-enhancing move!

Cheers...

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

Talk about your basic non-career-enhancing move!


no kidding!


an interpreter could cause a lot of havoc. one would think that they'd be ratted out quickly, but then there's the old saying about lies getting halfway 'round the world while the truth's still putting on its shoes.

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Good for her. I hope they didn't shoot her.