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More Reuters Bias
30 August 2006You think Reuters would have learned a lesson by now - cut the bias and tell the news as it is. Well, the following is really subtle, but it shows the political leanings of the powers that be at Reuters and their underlings. The first is a picture of of a woman smoking a cigarette - pretty tame stuff here, right? Other than the woman wearing a Muslim headscarf, there is nothing else identifying the location […]
Hamas Blames the Palestinians for the Situation in Gaza
28 August 2006According to th Jerusalem Post, Hamas has must admitted what the rest of the world has known for months - that Gaza is spiralling downward and that it has nothing to do with Israel. The following comments were made recently by Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority government and Hamas member:
Gaza City has “unimaginable chaos, careless policemen, young men carrying guns and strutting with pride and families receiving condolences for their dead in the middle of the […]
DISHONEST REPORTING: Reuters admits to doctoring Beirut photo
7 August 2006
Reuters news agency admitted on Sunday that it had digitally altered a photograph of an Israeli attack on Lebanon on Saturday, showing more smoke than was actually present.The photograph, as initially published, showed an aerial view of Beirut after an IAF attack, with two large pillars of smoke rising over the city. The caption read: Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs.
The agency has since withdrawn the […]