The media function as interpreters of news, and socializes the electorate, which allows for liberty in reporting.
Regardless, most journalists and interpreters of news, namely, the pundits and scholars asked to comment about this public policy initiative, probably have not seen soda-related surveys beyond the two mentioned above.
One Twitter user wrote that while watching a sign-language interpreter during New Zealand's response to the Christchurch attack, "one has to acknowledge this deep sensitivity of the NZ society". "So impressed by NZ's inclusivity of having a sign language interpreter at news conferences," one user wrote.
At the Palestine Hotel, where I was taunted in the last weeks of Mr. Hussein's terror by officials of his information ministry as "the most dangerous man in Iraq" because of my articles about the regime's brutality, some of the same Iraqis, who now work as interpreters for Western news bureaus, caution me against staying in the 16th-floor room I used to inhabit.
"We were looking for an N.B.A. star to represent the N.B.A. image and be our spokesperson," Wu said through an interpreter at a news conference in Cleveland on Monday.
The English-language translation given by the interpreter at the news conference was a little less blunt.
"I'm here despite the fact that I've fallen down to show that I've risen up," Peña said through an interpreter at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
"It's of some comfort and relief to learn that the Army has taken this seriously," Private Chen's mother, Su Zhen Chen, said through an interpreter at a news conference in Chinatown.
"In one month, when I meet the players, I want to be able to speak to them in English," he said in Italian; he used an interpreter at the news conference.
"He could theoretically be released after 15 years at the earliest, and then of course three judges would have to decide again about his release," said Franz Cutka, a court spokesman, speaking through an interpreter at a news conference.
