Comments on: Bush poaches some of Benedict’s best lines http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/ Religion, faith and ethics Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Tom Heneghan http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2915 Tom Heneghan Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:59:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2915 Sadie, including people's opinions in a report does not mean that Reuters approves of them. Our role is to inform readers about what is said and done at an event like this. This "anti-Christ" quote stood out because it was so different from the generally positive statements being made about the pope. Sadie, including people’s opinions in a report does not mean that Reuters approves of them. Our role is to inform readers about what is said and done at an event like this. This “anti-Christ” quote stood out because it was so different from the generally positive statements being made about the pope.

]]> By: Sadie http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2914 Sadie Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:44:48 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2914 I really want to comment of the stories of the Pope's visit where the coverage included mention of protestors calling the Pope the antichrist. I respect free speech, but when people disrespect a person or a religion in the name of free speech, why proliferate the error in your stories using the same words? I mean think about how a teacher from England was put on trial and kicked out of country for allowing grade school children to name a teddy bear after a muslim prophet. Though in America we don't arrest people for insulting each other's religions, I still feel that it is inappropriate to repeat the insults in a news story. Are you trying to indicate the Reuters approves of such insults? I regret that some fundamentalist cults are so ignorant that they actually would call the Pope such a thing. I'll pray for their enlightenment because God loves us all the same. I really want to comment of the stories of the Pope’s visit where the coverage included mention of protestors calling the Pope the antichrist. I respect free speech, but when people disrespect a person or a religion in the name of free speech, why proliferate the error in your stories using the same words? I mean think about how a teacher from England was put on trial and kicked out of country for allowing grade school children to name a teddy bear after a muslim prophet. Though in America we don’t arrest people for insulting each other’s religions, I still feel that it is inappropriate to repeat the insults in a news story. Are you trying to indicate the Reuters approves of such insults? I regret that some fundamentalist cults are so ignorant that they actually would call the Pope such a thing. I’ll pray for their enlightenment because God loves us all the same.

]]> By: Daniel http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2912 Daniel Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:07:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2912 Use of the word "Poaches" in the headline of this story reveals Reuters to be extraordinarily petty in its effort to characterize the president as some sort of plagiarist. It is obvious to anyone reading your own story the president's choice of words were indeed open flattery, with zero intent to "poach" anything. Of course, you know this, but somehow are unable to stop yourselves. This kind of bizzare and childish bias contributes to the reduction of the once-vaunted Reuters to the equivalent of cyber toilet-paper. Use of the word “Poaches” in the headline of this story reveals Reuters to be extraordinarily petty in its effort to characterize the president as some sort of plagiarist. It is obvious to anyone reading your own story the president’s choice of words were indeed open flattery, with zero intent to “poach” anything. Of course, you know this, but somehow are unable to stop yourselves.

This kind of bizzare and childish bias contributes to the reduction of the once-vaunted Reuters to the equivalent of cyber toilet-paper.

]]> By: Ramblings of a Retarding Monkey » Blog Archive » Groan http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2910 Ramblings of a Retarding Monkey » Blog Archive » Groan Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:50:25 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/16/bush-poaches-some-of-benedicts-best-lines/#comment-2910 [...] head nearly bounced off the desk when I saw this article title come across the Reuters feed was: Bush poaches some of Benedict’s best lines. Of course I can’t resist categorizing this as “Food” [...] […] head nearly bounced off the desk when I saw this article title come across the Reuters feed was: Bush poaches some of Benedict’s best lines. Of course I can’t resist categorizing this as “Food” […]

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