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Reader reaction to Reuters news
Not all Palin supporters?
Palin returns with feisty, anti-establishment speech
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Conservative Sarah Palin returned to the U.S. political arena on Saturday after several months absence with a feisty speech attacking both the establishment Republican Party and Democratic President Barack Obama and proclaiming “the 2012 elections begin here.”
In a move apparently aimed at keeping her name in the running for the Republican nomination in next year’s presidential election, Palin addressed several thousand people in Wisconsin, a state bitterly divided by a political fight over union rights.
If your article on Ms. Palin’s recent Wisconsin stop is representative of Reuters degree of accuracy, objectivity and comprehensiveness in reporting, Reuters will not be on my list of reliable news sources.
To “report” that Ms. Palin spoke to a crowd of several thousand implies that they supported her, whereas an accurate report would indicate that the majority did not.
Shoobie
Nothing in our story suggests that these were all pro-Palin people. We said she addressed “several thousand people,” and we could have said supporters had we thought that’s what they were.
Palin’s opinion…
Palin tells Bernanke ‘cease and desist’-report
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin on Monday weighed in on the global debate over the Federal Reserve’s $600 billion plan to buy up government debt, suggesting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke should “cease and desist.”
Why would Reuters, a fist class news reporting organization, run an article featuring Sarah Palin’s opinion about this?
Though some political persons may enjoy her time in the headlines, I hardly believe that most Americans really care what she believes when economic methods are the topic…Reuters is not Wonder Wall… right?
M.S.
As the second paragraph of our story said, Palin is widely seen as a prospective 2012 Republican presidential candidate.
That, coupled with her party’s election gains just a few days earlier, means her opinion on such issues is newsworthy: GBU Editor
Very buggy site.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B C39D20101214
Clicking on “see all comments” always shows 0 comments… even when there ARE comments and I just saw them a few minutes ago.
1 of countless things that don’t work.
It wasn’t June…
Alaska Gov. Palin to leave office with cloudy future
Palin made a surprise decision on June 3 that she would resign, raising questions about her next move and whether she was planning to mount a run for president.
Actually, it was July 3, not June 3.
Avo
Yes. We corrected: GBU Editor
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announces that she will resign and will not run for re-election as governor, in Wasilla, Alaska, July 3, 2009 in this video frame grab. REUTERS/KTUU-TV
Letterman and Palin
McCain defends Palin against Letterman
Letterman joked that a Palin daughter, presumably Bristol, 18, had sex with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during a baseball game the ex-vice presidential candidate attended. Bristol gave birth to a child last year fathered by her former fiance.
Your story contains a major factual error. Mr. Letterman was not referring to Bristol Palin (18 years old), but rather Willow Palin (14 years old).
Mr. Letterman clearly directed his comment toward the Palin daughter who attended the New York Yankees game with her mother and this was Willow Palin.
I am saddened to see that Reuters editorialized this story by saying that Mr. Letterman was “presumably” referring to Bristol Palin, as he was not.
Tex
Why are you helping Letterman spin his alleged joke about Willow Palin into “Well, maybe I was talking about Bristol” when Bristol Palin was not within three thousand MILES of the baseball game Loserman was “joking about.” WILLOW, the 14-year old daughter was there. SHE was the victim of his “humor.”
COMMON ON PEOPLE. SARAH PALIN IS JUST LOOKING TO MAKE MONEY. DAVID LETTERMAN DIDNOT WHICH CHILD WAS WITH SARAH AT THE YANKEES GAMES. BUT THE FACT ARE HER YOUNG DAUGHTER GOT NOT UP RIGHT UNDER HER ROOF. BECAUSE SHE LET THE BF SLEEP WITH HER DAUGHTER IS WAS UNDER THE AGE OF 18. LETS FOCUS ON THE HUGH PROBLEMS WILL ARE FACING. AND IF YOU WANT A LEADER LOOK FOR SOMEONE WHO READS DAILY AND UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE ISSUES WE FACE INTO TODAYS WORLD.
Those Palin photos…
I think the pictures you showed of Sarah Palin’s legs and the boys in between them were dispicable and VERY sexist.
You are supposed to be a professional news source. This is stooping to new lows. This is the kind of journalism you would expect to find in the tabloid ragsheets!
Randy
What are you thinking? Do you know how offensive it is that you published this sexist photo of the Republican V.P. candidate.
What a bunch of slime! Reuters isn’t even close to being a news service with this kind of slanted journalism. Shame on you!
G.D.
Never again will I take any thing serious from your slimy news agency. I do not care Dem or Republican..no woman other than a pole dancers deserves this kind of photo…
I see you choose to print only those hypocritical views that youy paper probably expouses. Taking a photo up a women’s legs is always SEXIST unless the ‘said’ person is a Democrat. This is very unpleasant.
In the Middle East and in many Muslim homes this is the image we get of the WEST. HYPOCRITICAL. Palin should wear a full cloak and cover herself (like Muslim women)in a country that women are held in full REGARD and EQUALITY.
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