wtf CNN.com ?

[flexy]

can anyone explain why there's arabic available as language pref ? not french...not chinese...not german...ARABIC ????

http://www.cnn.com

 

[tasmanian]

 

[Mucho]

You are still drunk, go back to bed.

 

[rhino56]

because they are based in iran im pretty sure.

 

[flexy]

http://home.comcast.net/~gwrauh1/cnn.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gwrauh1/cnn2.jpg

 

[ForumMaster]

cause it's one of the bigger languages? true, i would thus expect versions in chinease or hindi. maybe they are going to add more languages like google did. although google news in hebrew is nice and all, i still read only the english version. i assume the majority will read the english version as well.

 

[txrandom]

Originally posted by: rhino56
because they are based in iran im pretty sure.

Iran's language is Farsi.

 

[Bootprint]

On the bottom on my cnn page you can select

"CNN en Espanol | Arabic | Japanese | Korean | Turkish"

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
On the bottom on my cnn page you can select

"CNN en Espanol | Arabic | Japanese | Korean | Turkish"

and i bet that there will be more available soon. it could just be a matter of some language conversions being done sooner...

 

[mugs]

Perhaps because there's a war going on in Iraq, and they want arabs to be able to read our version of the news?

 

[dbk]

Because they're terrorists.

 

[zoiks]

They need a way to spread their propaganda.

 

[Pepsi90919]

is that a problem?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: mugs
Perhaps because there's a war going on in Iraq, and they want arabs to be able to read our version of the news?

Ding ding!

 

[Bootprint]

Most of the world probably reads the BBC anyways.

 

[jpeyton]

Arabic covers quite a large segment of the world's population; more so than French or German.

China probably censors the site anyways.

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Arabic covers quite a large segment of the world's population; more so than French or German.

China probably censors the site anyways.

not true, I am in China right now, and the version looks exactly like the US version. I can even take a screenshot and we can compare if you like

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: flexy
can anyone explain why there's arabic available as language pref ? not french...not chinese...not german...ARABIC ????

http://www.cnn.com

Can you explain why this is an issue?

 

[ultimatebob]

Al Jazeera has an English version of their news page. Using your logic, would that be equally weird?

 

[Conky]

It's because we are taking over, infidel! :laugh:

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Most of the world probably reads the BBC anyways.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: erub
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: jpeyton
Arabic covers quite a large segment of the world's population; more so than French or German.

China probably censors the site anyways.</end quote></div>


not true, I am in China right now, and the version looks exactly like the US version. I can even take a screenshot and we can compare if you like

What does the article about the success of democracy say?

 

[uallas5]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Most of the world probably reads the BBC anyways.

qft

and the fact that they're just trying to catch up to the bbc which has about 3 doz languages to cnn's 5. avail BBC languages

 

[flexy]

no, not an *issue*..but i was just surprised that arabic was the next choice right after english..see my screenshots.

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: erub
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: jpeyton
Arabic covers quite a large segment of the world's population; more so than French or German.

China probably censors the site anyways.</end quote></div>


not true, I am in China right now, and the version looks exactly like the US version. I can even take a screenshot and we can compare if you like
</end quote></div>

What does the article about the success of democracy say?

got a link? I searched for those terms on CNN.com, closest hits are about East Timor counting votes and the Hong Kong handover