‘Leaving Behind All They Own’ as Wildfires Ravage Canada 加拿大野火燎原 人民被迫拋棄家園逃生


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紐時周報精選 'Leaving Behind All They Own' as Wildfires Ravage Canada 加拿大野火燎原 人民被迫拋棄家園逃生
How MTV Broke News for a Generation 時代的眼淚! MTV新聞停播
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'Leaving Behind All They Own' as Wildfires Ravage Canada 加拿大野火燎原 人民被迫拋棄家園逃生
文/Ian Austen, Amber Bracken, V
譯/陳曉慈

加拿大野火燎原 人民被迫拋棄家園逃生

Judy Greenwood did not want to leave. But when the evacuation alerts on her phone blared repeatedly and emergency officials knocked on her door, she and her husband loaded their four cats into the car and drove away from their rural hamlet to escape approaching wildfires.

茱蒂.葛林伍德不想離開。但當手機的疏散警報刺耳地響個不停,緊急應變人員也來敲門,她與丈夫只得將4隻貓帶上車,驅車離開他們的偏僻村落,逃離逐漸逼近的野火。

In much of the western province of Alberta, this time of year has long been wildfire season. But this year, a large volume of fires in the boreal forest have come early and have been exceptionally extensive, leading the province to declare a state of emergency.

在加拿大西部亞伯達省的大部分地區,每年這個時節通常是野火季。但今年,北方針葉林很早就出現大量火勢,範圍也特別大,促使該省宣布進入緊急狀態。

As of Tuesday morning, about 30,000 people had fled their homes in the sparsely populated, largely northern areas of the province as 89 active wildfires were burning across nearly 1 million acres.

至周二上午,在該省主要位於北部的人煙稀少地區,已有約3萬民眾撤離家園。89處野火仍在焚燒,面積近100萬英畝。

There have already been 409 fires this season — which typically runs from March 1 to Oct. 31 — an unusually high number. And for residents of vulnerable areas, that has evoked uneasy memories of 2016, when raging flames moved from the forest into the oil sands capital of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

當地野火季通常自3月1日持續至10月31日,本季已發生409場大火,數字高得不尋常。而對高風險區居民而言,這喚起他們對2016年的不安回憶,當年火勢從森林一路延燒至油砂重鎮麥克默里堡。

That conflagration forced the evacuation of more than 90,000 people, destroyed more than 2,400 homes and businesses, and disrupted production at the United States' largest source of imported oil. At more than 4 billion Canadian dollars, it remains Canada's most costly disaster.

那場大火迫使超過9萬名民眾撤離,摧毀2,400棟民宅及商業建築,打斷這個美國最大進口石油來源的生產,造成逾40億元加幣損失,至今仍是加國損失最慘的災難。

As was the case during the Fort McMurray fires, many of the current evacuees, a group that includes thousands of members of First Nations communities, have sought refuge in Edmonton, the province's capital and second-largest city.

如同麥克默里堡大火,這次逃難民眾包含數以千計的原住民「第一民族」社群,大多湧至該省首府、第二大城艾德蒙頓避難。

Uncertainty plagues many evacuees. Thick smoke hanging over many areas has made it impossible to determine through aerial surveys the fate of many houses and other buildings.

不確定性讓許多逃難民眾不安。許多地區濃煙密布,透過空中勘測也無法確定民房與其他建築狀況。

"No question that this is a challenging time," Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, told reporters Monday afternoon. "Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and their jobs. They're leaving behind all they own, wondering if they will lose everything that they've worked for."

亞伯達省省長戴思敏周一下午告訴記者:「現在無疑是艱難時刻。數以萬計民眾被迫捨棄家園與工作。他們拋棄了所有的東西,不知道是否將失去平生打拚換來的一切。」

Mike Ellis, Alberta's public safety minister, told reporters that there were limits to what any government or agency could do to extinguish the fires. In past years, a change in weather has ultimately been the only force that has brought blazes under control.

亞伯達省公共安全局局長艾利斯向記者表示,任何政府或機構對於撲滅火勢能做的十分有限。過去幾年,天氣變化最終成為控制火勢的唯一力量。

"I let everybody know that because there is no silver-bullet solution in our response," he said.

他說:「對此我毫不諱言,因為我們也沒有靈丹妙藥能夠因應。」

 

 
How MTV Broke News for a Generation 時代的眼淚! MTV新聞停播
文/Remy Tumin
譯/周辰陽

時代的眼淚! MTV新聞停播

A little over a year into his first term, President Bill Clinton made good on a promise to return to MTV if young voters sent him to the White House.

進入他的第一個任期一年多一點的時候,柯林頓總統兌現了承諾,只要年輕選民送他進白宮,就會重返MTV。

Now, a generation after MTV News bridged the gap between news and pop culture, Paramount, the network's parent company, announced last week that it was shuttering the news service.

如今,MTV News彌合新聞與流行文化隔閡的一個世代後,電視網的母公司派拉蒙上周宣布要關閉新聞服務。

The end of MTV's news operation is part of a 25% reduction in Paramount's staff, Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, said in an email to staff that was shared with The New York Times.

Showtime/MTV娛樂工作室與派拉蒙媒體網總裁兼執行長麥卡錫,在一封被分享給紐約時報的致工作人員電郵表示,MTV News結束營運是派拉蒙裁員25%的一部分。

MTV News and its cadre of anchors and video journalists were the ones to tell young people about the suicide of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and the killings of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. They brought viewers on the presidential campaign trail. They also embraced the messy chaos of 1990s and early 2000s celebrity. They always put music first.

MTV News跟它的主播與影像記者,告知年輕人「超脫」合唱團主唱寇特.柯本輕生及饒舌歌手「聲名狼藉先生」和吐派克命案。他們將觀眾帶到總統競選活動,他們也接受1990年代與2000年代早期名人的放浪形骸。他們始終把音樂放在第一位。

Through it all, MTV News never strayed from its core mission of centering the conversation around young people.

一路走來,MTV News從來沒有背離它讓對話圍繞著年輕人的核心使命。

MTV News broke up the television news environment "in terms of young versus old, hip versus square," rather than the conservative-versus-liberal approach of many cable news networks today, said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and pop culture at Syracuse University. Its influence can be seen in the work of Vice News, the brash digital-media disrupter, and in the hand-held camcorder style of reporting that some CNN journalists have embraced.

雪城大學電視與流行文化教授湯普森說,MTV News「在年輕對年老、時尚對守舊方面」打破了電視新聞環境,而非今日許多有線電視網的保守派對自由派態度。其影響力可見於特立獨行的數位媒體顛覆者Vice News作業,以及一些CNN記者採納的手持攝影機報導風格。

The Music Television network debuted in 1981 like a "fuse that lit the cable revolution," Thompson said. Six years later, MTV News came on air under the deep, sure-footed voice of Kurt Loder, a former Rolling Stone editor, who co-hosted a weekly news program called "The Week in Rock."

湯普森說,MTV電視網在1981年首播,就像「點燃有線電視革命的導火線」。6年後,在庫特.洛德深沉、踏實聲音下,MTV News開始播送。洛德是「滾石」雜誌前總編輯,共同主持名為「搖滾一周」的每周新聞節目。

But it was his interrupting-regular-programming announcement of Cobain's death in 1994 that cemented Loder as "the poet laureate of Gen X," Thompson said.

湯普森說,洛德在1994年中斷日常節目宣布了柯本死訊,鞏固他做為「X世代桂冠詩人」的地位。

MTV News tried to set itself apart from other cable news operations in a number of ways, Loder said. MTV News anchors and correspondents did not wear suits. They also weren't "self-righteous" and tried "not to talk down to the audience," he said.

洛德說,MTV News試著用若干方式,使其與其他有線電視新聞不同。他說,MTV News主播跟記者不穿西裝,也不會「自以為是」,並試圖「不以高人一等態度對觀眾說話」。

 

 
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