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Opinionated rant?
It’s extremely disturbing when I come here for news and I find articles like this being promoted here. I left CNN (for the most part) and came to Reuters because I believe you are a better source for news. I strongly believe you are less biased, less opinionated, and just an overall better news source.
However, when I find posts like the one, it makes me question my decision. Promoting, and allowing, any opinionated rant claiming people are better based on their race or gender (in this case gender) is disgusting to see.
I like Reuters a lot, but if I continue to see you allowing and promoting articles like this I will once again feel obligated to search for another news source, and I strongly doubt I will be the only one. These articles do more harm than good.
I know I’m just one person, but I doubt I’m the only one who feels this way.
Ian
This is very perplexing. Are you sure you read the same thing I did?
Not on our site…
Ron Paul vs. the “pretty boys”
The ad, not authorized by the candidate, debuted last week. It’s posted on Paul’s website and on YouTube. But Revolution Pac is looking for wider distribution. The PAC is seeking donations to buy TV time to air the spot in the crucial early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
This article states that the un-affiliated Revolution PAC ad appears on Ron Paul’s website, assumed to mean the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee website www.ronpaul2012.com. The ad does NOT appear on our website, nor does any Revolution PAC information appear there. Please make this correction, and many thanks for your attention.
James V. Barcia Deputy National Press Secretary Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
We made the correction to our Front Row Washington blog item: GBU Editor
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul speaks during the American Principles Project Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, South Carolina September 5, 2011. REUTERS/Chris Keane
A house is not a home…
Funeral planning: How to avoid paying beyond the grave
Take the time to really think through what kind of funeral you think you want. “People can have their funerals anywhere, not necessarily a church or funeral house,” says Erika Dillman, author of “The Party of Your Life.” There are also green burials, where you can be buried in a shroud or a biodegradable casket.
Hello, I’m writing because I was quoted in an article on this site, and the quote is incorrect and the link from the title of my book is also incorrect.
I said “funeral home” not “funeral house” and the link from the title of my book should go to my actual site (it now goes to an unrelated company with the same name)….my link is here.
I would greatly appreciate it if these small issues could be corrected. Thanks
Erika Dillman, Author, “The Party of Your Life”
He shot it where?
How small business can avoid becoming the next GoDaddy
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Social media is great for spreading the word but sometimes its content can become the elephant in the room, quite literally.
Just ask Bob Parsons, the flamboyant founder and CEO of Web hosting site GoDaddy, who posted a video link of his elephant shoot in Kenya on his Twitter account last month.
Your article incorrectly says that Parsons shot an elephant in Kenya.
The truth is that he shot the elephant in Zimbabwe.
B.R.
Indeed. Several readers noticed this. We have corrected the item: GBU Editor
Offensive headline?
Felix Salmon’s blog is a low for Reuters.
I have no problem with his point or content – that is his choice to make. But your choice to allow a sensationalized title, “Don’t Donate Money to Japan” is cheap attention grabbing at its best.
Myself and my coworkers who just saw this are going to go elsewhere for our news and opinions.
T.T.
First, as a Japanese citizen, I felt as if I was hit on my head with a frying pan as I was seeing the title.
I felt that Felix’s article was simply ignorant, insensitive, and too subjective.
I wonder how many people saw the headline, but didn’t read the actual posting.
A Stern warning…
Stern Advice: Tax breaks for the Sandwich Generation
– Work with your siblings to help Mom. Unlike your child, your aging parent doesn’t have to live with you to qualify as a dependent. If she is in a nursing home or assisted living facility and you provide more than half of her support, she’s a dependent. You don’t even have to do it all by yourself — all of the money that you and your siblings put in together can be counted as one.
This is incorrect, in that your child does NOT have to live with you to qualify as a dependent.
An adult child who earns less than $3,650 will qualify as a Qualifying Relative, and thus a dependent, even if he/she does NOT live with you, as long as you provide over half of his/her support.
Look it up. Then correct it, please.
Roger
Thanks. We did look it up, and we corrected it: GBU Editor
The wrong word…
Hillary wants a break, but maybe just a little one
ABC’s Good Morning America asked how’s she’s doing on The Grandmother Front. She prefaced her reply with peels of laughter: “I will only get in trouble, however I respond to that. But let me just say I love babies, and so maybe I’ll have more in my life some day.”
Not a question, but an edit. Your article online today about Hillary Clinton possibly taking a break and prospects of becoming a grandmother, notes that she replied with ‘peels of laughter.’
The sound of her laughter should not be compared to fruit skins or facials. The word should be ‘peals’ of laughter, as in bell-like tones.
E.S.D.
Indeed. We fixed it: GBU Editor
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton attend a State Dinner in honor of President of China Hu Jintao at the White House in Washington, January 19, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young
Where’s the irony?
Women trading Wall Street for Main Street
CHICAGO (Reuters) – It’s ironic that the skills that make women effective on Wall Street also help them run their own businesses after they leave.
Wow, amazing. Ironic ???
This has to be the best (if not the most gut-bustingly funny) demonstration of complete illiteracy I’ve ever seen.
Keep up the excellent high-caliber journalistic work!
Tasha
Really? That’s the best demonstration of complete illiteracy you’ve ever seen? Worthy of such vicious sarcasm? You should do my job for a week and you’d see a lot worse.
The f-word?
The secret Paulson-Goldman meeting
For f**k’s sake! Wilkinson thought. He and Treasury had had enough trouble trying to fend off all the Goldman Sachs conspiracy theories constantly being bandied about in Washington and on Wall Street. A private meeting with its board? In Moscow?
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/10/20/the-secret-paulson-goldman-meeting/
Excuse me, but that little four letter ‘f’ word just happen to sneak into the article, and I’m offended. Need I say more? Please advise the article’s writer to stop quoting offensive words.
Stephan
This was posted in a blog on your Website. I’m not really sure if that was supposed to be there. If it is, then no problem, but it doesn’t seem a comment I would normally read off a news Website. Just wondering.
Pana
Sore subject
Your misspelling: Steinbrueck admitted long meetings cause his rear end to get soar and also…Sorry, just had to point that out to you.
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