Of our viewers have asked, but vitaly, i just want to cross to you first. with regards to your role at bbc monitoring, which monitors language services and media around the world, particularly from your position with regards to russia, we know that for decades now vladimir putin and the kremlin has had a vice like grip, increasingly so, on media. i m interested, to what degree do you think people beyond rostov on don, beyond moscow and voronezh will be aware of what s been happening in the west of the country in recent days? do you think, for example, in the siberian hinterlands, people will be aware of what s happened and what s taken place? well, i think anyone with any interest in what is going on in russia and the world, they will be able to find out what yevgeny prigozhin has been doing over the past couple of days, even though the kremlin s official media machine doesn t really want the russians to have the complete picture of all the confusing events that have taken place.
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There is hope for the rest of us, as the saying goes, if even lawyers do not understand their own idioms. After asking the obvious question - “why do lawyers write in such a convoluted manner?” - a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team found that lawyers, despite apparently being responsible for their own arcane jargon, often don’t really like it. Less forgivably, sometimes they aren’t even too sure what it all means. “Across two pre-registered experiments, we find that lawyers, like laypeople, were less able to understand and recall 'legalese' contracts than content of equivalent meaning drafted in a simplified register,” they said. In plain English, that means lawyers could better remember and comprehend their own contracts if they were written in plain English.
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Than three million viewers a night last year the largest audience in us cable news. and over at cnn, don lemon, who s been with the network for 17 years, has been fired. cnn didn t give a reason for the action, but lemon was recently suspended and forced to apologise for comments he made on air about women. live now to alice enders, director of research at enders analysis, which focusses on media. let s talk about tucker carlson first. why do you think fox news got rid of him without even a big final show? ~ ~ , ., , , show? well, i think the phrase they used was parted show? well, i think the phrase they used was parted ways show? well, i think the phrase they used was parted ways amicably, l used was parted ways amicably, obviously. tucker carlson, of course, was one of the hosts that was named in the voting system defamation lawsuit which fox news settled last week, and even though it was a settlement, it will force all media organisations in the us to