Comments on: News never takes a holiday

By: Thor Schrock

Thor Schrock — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:43:27 +0000

News never does take a break… I fact, this weekend the NOAA.gov website was hacked and despite me posting all over the place about it and emailing the FBI, the hacked pages are still there and no one seems to care.

While news does not take a break, it seems that a Sunday night is the best time to hack the US government and get away with it - for a while at least.

By: Paul Holmes

Paul Holmes — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:36:44 +0000

In response to Jim Tanksley. There is no doubt that the court which tried Saddam Hussein consisted of Iraqi judges and lawyers and was established under Iraqi law. It is equally true, however, that the court had its genesis in statutes promulgated by the Coalition Provisional Authority when Iraq was formally under U.S. occupation. Saddam Hussein was held throughout his trial and up to his execution in U.S. military custody and U.S. marshals controlled security in the courtroom. Journalist Dana Lewis of Fox News wrote an interesting piece in 2005 about how intensively those marshals questioned correspondents before they were allowed to cover the trial, including about their religion and other matters seemingly unconnected with establishing a journalist’s credentials. Lionel Beehner, a staff writer for the non-partisan U.S. Council on Foreign Relations has also noted that the tribunal was originally established with the help of some $75 million in U.S. funds and that the United States supplied the court with legal experts and training. For all those reasons, I am comfortable that the use of “U.S.-sponsored” is a legitimate term.

As for for my colleagues Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald, they are very real reporters and extremely good ones too. We do not have an agenda, other than to report events dispassionately, fairly and without opinion. Mariam, Alastair and their colleagues from Reuters and other news organisations do a great job from Iraq and without them there to do the real reporting, the world would be far less informed.

By: Jim Tanksley

Jim Tanksley — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:30:59 +0000

“News never takes a holiday”, but Reuters, AP, etc… seem to never present simple and straight news anymore. Reuters and others love to editorialize the news rather than just simply REPORT the news. Example, I was not aware that America “sponsored” Saddam’s trial, yet your two editors (not real reporters), Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald, seemed very determined to state this lie. Saddam’s trial IS Iraqi’s sponsored trial. The US played no part in the actual trial!!!!

Why do you, Reuters, and others, editorialize news today? You corrupt the news to fit your agenda.

Pathetic!!!

By: Syed Abrar

Syed Abrar — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:44:07 +0000

Remember Reuters was the one who first covered the Berlin wall..Reuters has got the royal nose for news,which is very rare. i salute all the journalists..Holidays can be enjoyed later, but news is more important..work with the same attitude.
All the best
Abrar!