But UPI might still be thriving today as a wire service, which it is not, if it had been able to outsource some of its lower-end business when I started as a reporter in London twenty-five years ago.

• 但是合众社现在仍然做为一个通讯社兴亡着，如果它能在25年前外包它的一些基础商务，它现在就不是这样了，当时我刚开始在伦敦做一名记者。