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Bad pronunciation?
Your correspondent reporting on the Mapuche indigenous people’s protest in Chile, pronounced their name incorrectly at least 2 times during the video.
She said Machupe instead of Mapuche, a big difference.
This was disrespectful to the Mapuche people. Please have your reporters familiarize themselves with the subjects of their stories.
Nancy R.
We pulled the piece with the mispronunciation and replaced it with a new narration: GBU Editor
Profane pictures?
I have a complaint about profane pictures.
I visit reuters.com with my family to read news together with my children.
We appreciate if the site continues to stay clean. Now we have started noticing that it displays pictures of Victoria’s Secret fashion show, or video on a beheaded Mexican blogger.
Please refrain from making your site sensational, and continue to keep it neat and elegant by placing visuals with more discretion.
A Florida reader
I understand your point, but not all of our content is intended for all readers, and it should have been pretty clear what to expect from those items in particular.
In halting English…
Your headline on the Rihanna story….
You mean HALTS, not ” haults ” !
This opens you up to ridicule…….for shame Reuters !
Roger E.
Yes, we fixed it, but not before people noticed the mistake: GBU Editor
Singer Rihanna performs at the Rock in Rio Music Festival in Rio de Janeiro September 23, 2011. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
Hiding in a what?
I’m the father of Alexandra Peltre, who survived the attack on Utoeya, Norway. The information given by the journalist in this report is not correct!
She did not hide in a wardrobe after being shot, and she never said anything about a wardrobe when she was interviewed.
She was shot while trying to hide along the waterline. After being shot, she managed to swim a bit out from the shoreline, and when the gunman moved on, she managed to crawl back to land where she was laying next to a young man shot in the shoulder. The two of them shared a jacket or sweater for warmth.
The gunman was apprehended a short time later, and she received life saving first-aid by the police. There was not a wardrobe in sight!
This was a bad one. Someone heard “water” in the interview and mistook it for wardrobe, illogical though that may sound. We pulled the piece: GBU Editor
The wrong brothers?
Your article is incorrect regarding the inventors of hot air ballooning.
You state “inflatable aircrafts have been around since the Gondolfier brothers developed the first untethered hot-air balloon in 1782…
There were NO Gondolfier brothers!
Mahony
Indeed. We fixed the reference to recognize the Montgolfier brothers: GBU Editor
Whose fists are those?
You incorrectly headlined a video clip “Protesters pump fists at Wisconsin lawmakers.”
Those are actually Democratic lawmakers pumping fists at Republican lawmakers after the surprise vote late Thursday night in the State Assembly.
Protesters are not allowed inside the chamber, they are out of camera range in the gallery.
Sam
Indeed. We corrected the text: GBU Editor
Good catch, at first glance the orange t-shirts looked like prison jumpsuits. Clearly not the case!
Lost in translation?
I’d like to bring to your attention that your report\translator mistranslated what the police officer stated of the incident.
He said jonongon which means public\people, but your translator said mobster.
That is incorrect. Why do you portray third world as full of low-life ill-educated and corrupted?
Curious
We stand behind the piece.
Polly want a correction?
“The Netherlands and Spain will square off Sunday for the World Cup final, the first ever for both sides.”
On Mani the parrot, who predicts the Netherlands will win the World Cup, your reporter mistakenly, in her voiceover, says this is the first time for each Spain and the Netherlands to be in the World Cup final. That is incorrect. The Netherlands has been in two previous final games.
Adam That’s quite an embarrassing error to make two days before the finals. We corrected: GBU Editor
How big was the schooner?
Both in print and in the video you say he sailed a 7-foot schooner!
You should look at the size of his schooner a second time, because it’s a “70-foot boat” NOT a “7-foot boat!!!”
Keith
I can understand your on scene reporter stating into the mic that this fellow sailed his 7 foot schooner around the world in the longest sea voyage ever, because we all misspeak.
But it seems that whoever wrote the copy that accompanies the video didn’t bother to look at the video because no one could think that boat is seven feet long.
M.S.
Lots of readers noticed this one. We redid the narration to correct it: GBU Editor
Not Marines
A June 6 Reuters video report said that “U.S. Marines and Iraq” were working together in Basra.
However, the U.S. military members WERE U.S. NAVY RIVERINES, NOT MARINES. As the PAO for the Little Creek, Virginia-based Riverine squadrons, I’m requesting a correction be made to give these men the credit they deserve.
Barbara Albritton
We replaced that report with a corrected version which did identify the Riverines: GBU Editor
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