Working Languages

The Financial Times had a piece about interpreters the other day, prompting a typically stodgy riposte in today's edition from AIIC, our international association. The article itself is the usual sort of thing, worth reading however for its unwitting irony:

As Benoy discovered to its cost, interpreters need to be close to the subject matter as well as competent linguistically

And:

Ms Olivier ... believes that relying on the interpreter's potted version is risky

I mean, just replace "interpreter" with "journalist"...