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Whose queen is she?
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth inspects the honor guard during Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa July 1, 2010. REUTERS/Blair Gable
Just curious why the Queen is labeled “Britain’s Queen Elizabeth” in your articles and photos that cover the current Royal visit to Canada?
Her Majesty is the Queen of Canada, regardless of her association with the UK or any other Commonwealth country.
In the highly unlikely event that the UK were to become a republic tomorrow, she would still be the Queen of Canada, independently of her role in any other nation.
While in Canada, should she not be referred to as “Canada’s Queen Elizabeth”?
Neil B.
Altered photo?
Your Sara Palin photo is altered.
The one where she is sitting with arms back, chest protruding, big scowl on her face is fake. It’s easy to see poor job of pasting on lower jaw with square on her neck. I wont ask about the boobs.
If you need help spotting fakes I’m available.
Lee
Thanks for the offer, but you don’t seem to be very good at this. The photo is real and unaltered: GBU Editor
Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is seen in the stands of the 142nd Belmont Stakes, the final leg of racing’s Triple Crown, at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York June 5, 2010. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
I know you didn’t ask Lee but I will let you know anyway. I did a thorough examination of the picture and can tell you without question the boobs are real.
If you need help spotting fakes I’m available.
Cropped photos
Shame on you for editing (cropping) photos depicting wounded Israeli soldiers in a way that hides the cold weapons (knives and metal clubs) in the hands of the “peaceful” voyagers.
Unfortunately, Reuters looses its stature as an unbiased media outlet time and time again.
Amir
I would think the knife a “peace activist” was holding over a wounded Israeli soldier would be part of the news context. But that would involve impartial journalism, and Reuters’ own anti-Israel activism would take a hit. Don’t worry, I’ll take care of alerting appropriate media watchdogs; we’ve seen Reuters photography in action before.
Jaff
You cropped those pictures to deliberately omit weapons shown in the hands of the Turkish ships’ passengers including knives and broken bottles, and also cropped out a pool of blood from a wounded Israeli soldier and also entirely cropped out another wounded Israeli soldier covered in blood.
Altered image?
Israeli border police scuffle with a Palestinian man trying to enter al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers in Jerusalem’s Old City March 12, 2010. Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem’s Old City and Arab neighbourhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
What possessed you to PhotoShop”the batons out of the Israeli Police’s hands as they beat back demonstrators in Jerusalem?
It’s so obvious that they weren’t slapping at the demonstrators. It’s an attempt to censor the news so that the real violence in the confrontation isn’t shown.
I expected more from Reuters,but this time it makes me sceptical of the validity of your news reporting. I’m going to the regional news outlets where no outlandish,buggered-up coverage is present.
J.L.M.
The picture was not altered. Here is a blown up section of the portion you mentioned.
I think you may be right, Bookman. I was also commenting on [CENSORED] with [CENSORED] and [CENSORED][CENSORED] [CENSORED]. Isn’t that just incredible?
Inappropriate photo?
The photo used in the article regarding Eritrea needing Humanitarian help was in fact taken in Somalia. I find this photo very offensive and so do my Eritrean friends. Please replace the photo used and in future use photos taken in Eritrea to represent Eritreans.
Kidane
I am writing to complain the use of Somali’s malnourished child in your report regarding UNICEF’s campaign to raise $24.8 million fund for Eritrea.
Regardless whether or not UNICEF needs such fund for Eritrea, I believe that the use of Somali malnourished child in your report is a misrepresentation of Eritrea and part of a campaign to tarnish Eritrea’s image. Indeed, the use of the photo is unacceptable, unprofessional and it is something that one should not expect from news outlets such as Reuters.
Habtom
The picture of the child appended to the report on Eritrea is very offensive.
Look let them put any picture as long as they help the needy eritrean children where they look like the picture or not. if we always complain for everything may be no body even help us at all at least the somalians has good reason but our problems are far more worst please let us not have false pride and try to address our problems with out farther delay.
…poignant to say the least…
I live in Windsor, Ontario. In a Windsor Star edition from the week of Feb. 14th a picture from a Reuters photographer named Mike Cassese was carried.
It depicted a picture of family members, carrying roses to the hearse, in a repatriation ceremony at CFB Trenton. The soldier’s name was Cpl. Joshua Caleb Baker.
I am an amateur photographer and have shot a lot of film. I have to comment on this photo. This picture moved me in a way no other picture of this type has ever done. The abject sorrow that was captured on the young girls face, just blew me away. I could actually feel her pain. The reflected Honour Guard/pallbearers in the fender of the hearse was poignant to say the least.
I would hope that you would pass my comments on to your photographer. It was a great shot and the feelings evoked from such a tragic event were incredible. Well Done.
Dave R.
Thank you for noticing: GBU Editor
Where is Los Angeles?
Singer Justin Timberlake (L) and actor Bradley Cooper wait to answer the phone during the “Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief” telethon in this handout photo provided by MTV on January 22, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. REUTERS/Jeff Kravitz/MTV Hope for Haiti Now/Handout
Regarding the Haiti benefit, I’m curious as to why you refer to Los Angeles as Los Angeles, California yet you refer to New York City, New York as simply New York and London, England as simply London?
I am offended at the notion that you feel people the world over are too stupid to know that Los Angeles is in California.
I absolutely hate the inference. Thank you for ruining my quick glimpse into what is otherwise a heartwarming story in relief of a people so desperate for help.
As a lifelong Angeleno, I tell you that I despise your coverage and your insinuation of our inferiority to those places you hold in such high regard as those other cities and that I will do everything I can to further desist from accessing any of your coverage.
Signing off from Los Angeles, California,
J.M. It is our style to let Los Angeles stand alone, without California, but now and then when you move the volume of photos we did of that event, it slips in.
Taunting children?
Members of the protest group Code Pink taunt local school children with chants about the war in Afghanistan as the children and their families arrive for a Halloween reception by U.S. President Barack Obama and his family at the White House in Washington, October 31, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
I must strongly protest your caption on the photo of protesters outside the White House. Using the verb “taunt” with “local school children” as its object is inaccurate, pejorative and unwarranted.
Who is paying you to run such captions?
L.S.
Nobody is paying us to “run such captions.” Our photographer says the protesters said things to challenge and confront the children and their parents. For example, one protester dressed as a Wicked Witch was saying things like, “More pretties to die in my war! More pretties!”
He said they were not just protesting the war in general but were, in effect, telling these families that their children were going to die at war. That sounds pretty much like taunting to me: GBU Editor
I can understand someone trying to get thier point across but using kids to get that point across is wrong i do not really care what he or she said. they should have shown more class than to use kids in thier political banter. And some people wonder what is wrong with america today!!!! mainly it is that so many “adults” act like adolescents so why should the the teens act like adults.
Grow up and leave the children out of it.
DG
Fleshing out the photo information…
Wow, who wants to see that picture of a man with his flesh eaten away in your lead story on www.reuter.com?
Seriously, even on Halloween, one should have the option on clicking on something that makes it obvious that something gruesome follows.
It makes me question your judgment in general…I may change your site from being my home page. I can guarantee I won’t be going back to your page today.
C.J.V.
Yours was the only complaint I saw regarding this photo. As the photo caption made clear, it was a man in makeup – not “a man with his flesh eaten away…”
Happy Halloween! GBU Editor
Gross point blank…
An instructor aims his pistol during a shooting practice at the Academia Carioca de Tiro in Mesquita near Rio de Janeiro, October 21, 2005. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
The photo of an alleged firearms instructor pointing a pistol at the camera (and the photographer) is worse than stupid, it is outrageous.
The more so because the “instructor’s” finger is, Bog help us, on the trigger.
Mycroft
Although the photo was used to illustrate a story a couple of days ago, the picture itself was a file photo from 2005. Not that it would have been any smarter to take it back then, but at least we didn’t go out and shoot it last week: GBU Editor
anyone think the camera might have been triggered remotely?
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Resident Mediafile Expert
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well to make everybody happy what could be done is saying something like what follows at least once
“Queen Elizabeth II of Canada a.k.a Queen Elizabeth II of GB” …