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发帖数: 1431 | 1 you might check out the biggest news service in the U.S. that almost nobody
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WNC delivers the news online from 1,750 newspapers, broadcasts and blogs in
130 countries. It employs a host of translators鈥攈uman beings, not machines
鈥攚ho turn foreign arcana into fluent English every day. The production
cost is surely huge鈥攂ut it's a secret. That's because WNC's staff is paid
from the classified budget of the CIA.
This tweet, translated from Farsi, ran on WNC last year: "Iran says that CIA
agents have been arrested ahead of the 11 February rallies."
Who needs secret cables when the Central Intelligence Agency tosses out
nuggets like that鈥攑lus tons of ore for data miners? Gary Price of Resource
Shelf, a database guide, calls WNC "just incredibly cool. It has stuff
nobody can get any other way." |
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