Disassembling dissent
A lawsuit has been brought against [Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman’s book “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of The Mass Media”] in July 2006. The indictment demands that publishing house owner Fatih Tas, the editors Ömer Faruk Kurhan and Lütfi Taylan Tosun and the translator Dr. Ender Abadoglu should be punished with a prison sentence from 1.5 to 6 years. They are charged with publicly humiliating Turkish Republic, Turkish Grand National Assembly etc. and inciting hatred and hostilities among the population.
Of course it would be crass to bemoan the lousy translation of a story about translation.
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