Monday, September 12, 2005
Reuters: Practicing what it calls journalism
Iraq closed its border with Syria on Sunday to stop what it calls foreign fighters entering the country, as a U.S.-backed military operation to wipe out suspected terrorists in the city of Tal Afar continued.
Reuters, practicing what it calls journalism, obviously thinks that there are no foreign fighters in Iraq. The Iraqi government must have closed the border with Syria as part of an elaborate ruse.
And then there's this, from Gaza:
Israeli forces pulled out of the Gaza Strip on Monday after 38 years of occupation and joyful Palestinians charged into the ruins of former settlements, waving flags and firing in the air. Attacking symbols of the hated Israeli presence, youths smashed up and set ablaze at least two of the synagogues left behind in the 21 evacuated enclaves...
I get it. Palestinians, in a fit of joy, burn down "symbols of the hated Israeli presence," which just happen to be synagogues. Since when does "joy" mean "hatred"? And is it the "presence" of Israelis in Gaza that they hate, or the existence of Israelis anywhere? In its coverage of Jews and Americans, Reuters does not even pretend to be neutral.
3 Comments:
By 
TigerHawk, at
Tue Sep 13, 02:21:00 PM:
Well, they seem to have trashed the greenhouses, too.
By John B. Chilton, at
Tue Sep 13, 04:04:00 PM:
The Eclectic Econoclast has a post today on practicing photojournalism NYT style.
By Dymphna, at
Wed Sep 14, 07:42:00 PM:
I posted on al-Reuters recently. Geo Political Review had a link to email for Reuters so the Baron designed a logo to click on when you want to make a complaint to these "journalists." The logo incorporates the Hamas design.
Please feel free to take it and pass on; he has it with a background for various blog 'skins':
The Bloody Finger of al-Reuters Points
