Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, used a trip to New York to remind Americans that such a concentration of media ownership would not be allowed in their country.

英国广播公司的总经理马克·汤普森专程赶往纽约来提醒美国人一个人掌控如此多的媒体在他们国家是不被允许的。

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When they hear about a new social media craze they cringe in agony, desperately hoping it's a passing fad and not another new goddamn thing they'll be aimlessly paddling around in for the next decade.

当他们听到一种新的社会媒体成为一种风尚，就会使他们会痛苦万分，并绝望地诅咒这新东西只会流行一时，而不是他们在未来几十年里必须毫无目标地围绕着它的新的该被诅咒的东西。

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. -w. H. Auden.

大众媒体提供的，不是流行的艺术，而是像食物一样要被消费的娱乐，然后忘记掉，再被新的菜式所替代。- W . H。奥登。

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Well then, you must not be a Twitter user or pay attention to the new media circles that continue to absorb a larger piece of the pop culture pie.

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Let's not be intimidated by MSNBC or the New York Times or any of the mainstream media or anyone who somehow tries to scare us off.

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While it is assumed that the new station would not be a mouthpiece for the French government, French media chiefs say it would offer a different perspective on world events than that offered by CNN or the BBC, or the increasingly popular Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera.

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