为什么我们建立了Gript

这是一个简单的事实陈述，如果您在爱尔兰媒体中寻找多样化的思想，那么您将很难找到它。

Dear Reader,

亲爱的读者，

It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, then you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but rather to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.

这是一个简单的事实陈述，如果您在爱尔兰媒体中寻找多样化的思想，那么您将很难找到它。这就是为什么我们建立Gript的原因 - 当他们决定记者的工作不是要挑战共识的想法，而是要围绕它挑战，并为之辩护时，他们的许多同事都为市场留下了差距。

If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.

如果您正在寻找一个将所有内容都归咎于爱尔兰“最右边”的媒体，那么您就不必走很远。相比之下，如果您正在寻找一个超越这种廉价的口号的媒体，并试图理解和报告普通百姓的真正担忧 - 以及少数著名的人，尽管是私人的 - 那就是我们在这里尝试做的。

But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.

但是，如果没有您的支持和您的订阅，我们将无法做到这一点。

We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.

我们拒绝政府资金，因为在我们看来，这将是我们独立的终结。当我们这样做的那一刻，我们会开始看着肩膀，想知道我们对特定问题的报道是否会导致这笔钱被带走。随着时间的流逝，不是一次全部，而是慢慢而无情的 - 我们将成为另一个安全，共识，国家资助的声音。

But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.

但是，这里有一个讨价还价的东西：如果您重视我们的独立性，那么您必须支持它。如果您希望我们对您有责任，那么您必须掌握我们的工作。

What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.

我们在这里尝试做的是要保持开放，诚实和勇敢。这并不意味着您将始终同意我们的看法。这确实意味着有时候我们会惹恼您，并发布您不同意的事情：这是交易的一部分。我们是独立的，而不是一个原因或另一个原因的仆人。

That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.

这就是媒体应该是的，但在爱尔兰经常不再是。我们正在尝试改变这一点，我们需要您的帮助。因此，我是在要求它，并非常感谢您能负担得起的订阅。

With gratitude,

感恩，

John

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