Posted on 09/21/2004 2:25:01 PM PDT by quidnunc
Reuters' global managing editor acknowledges that Arab intimidation influences his agency's news coverage.
HonestReporting has repeatedly denounced media outlets' categorical refusal to call terrorists 'terrorists' in news reports.
As Islamic terror continues to spread worldwide, one major news outlet decided that enough is enough ? it's time to call terrorism by its name. CanWest, owners of Canada's largest newspaper chain, recently implemented a new editorial policy to use the 'T-word' in reports on brutal terrorist acts and groups.
So when CanWest's National Post published a Reuters report on Sept. 14, they exercised their right to change this Reuters line that whitewashes Palestinian terror:
… the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been involved in a four-year-old revolt against Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. (Jeffrey Heller, 9/13 'Sharon Faces Netanyahu Challenge')
to this, more accurate line:
… the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a terrorist group that has been involved in a four-year-old campaign of violence against Israel.
Reuters didn't like the adjustment, and took the unusual step of officially informing CanWest that if it intended to continue this practice, CanWest should remove Reuters' name from the byline. Why? The New York Times reported:
"Our editorial policy is that we don't use emotive words when labeling someone," said David A. Schlesinger, Reuters' global managing editor. "Any paper can change copy and do whatever they want. But if a paper wants to change our copy that way, we would be more comfortable if they remove the byline."Mr. Schlesinger said he was concerned that changes like those made at CanWest could lead to "confusion" about what Reuters is reporting and possibly endanger its reporters in volatile areas or situations.
"My goal is to protect our reporters and protect our editorial integrity," he said.
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In other words, they are cowards.
Of course how Reuters defines "integrity" is anyone's guess! They probably use the same Clintonian dictionary that redefined the "is."
The word terrorist is soooo meaningless. It's Islamo-facisism plain and simple!
The French example should be illustriative of the fact that appeasing these murderers doesn't work. In that the murderers are trying to dictate French internal policy, by taking hostages, when the French have not involved themselves in Iraq angainst the murderers. The media was not "fair and balanced" with Hitler and should not be with respect to these murderers.
And for the most part, CNN's outright admission of the same thing fell on deaf ears. Only those of us already skeptical of the media even cared.
But, between the Reuters statement and the SeeBS debacle, it's a bad week for the MSM.
Of course Reuters wouldn't hesitate to call Free Republic an extreme right wing website.
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sorta like CNN's faustian affair with Saddam, eh?
the truth has truly been coming out in the last year or so.
I do hope that the promise of the blogosphere pans out, and all these deceptive practices are drawn kicking and screaming into the light of day in full view of the public, so that a true understanding of the war we fight, World War Zero, can at last be publicly affirmed, recognized, accepted, and pursued to the hilt.
It seems we've heard that one before. CNN covered Saddams's atrocities for years so they could keep their Baghdad Bureau and report the "news"(censored) from Iraq. IOW they were a propaganda arm of Saddam's govt.
The wire services are servicing the terrorists everytime they provide us with their POV. Beheadings, roadside bombs, sneak attacks, car bombs, killing innocents isn't terrorism to them, just a means to an end.
Just like CNN, same old same old.
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