This week we introduced a new feature on reuters.com — a recommend button on all our articles. The idea is that if you like what you’re reading then you can simply click on the button to register your approval, so letting other readers and the edit
ors here at reuters.com know what’s good on the site.
In addition to being able to see how many other readers have recommended the particular story you’re looking at, we also collect the data to show you the most recommended stories across the site in the past 24 hours. So now you can not only see which stories on reuters.com have been most read, but also those that have been both read and recommended. (And if you’re wondering what the difference might be then look at our our most popular module on our articles to compare the two measure
s.)
This is one way in which we are seeking to harness the intelligence of the Reuters audience to help readers navigate the information on our site. It’s part of a rolling program of enhancements designed to open up the site to our readers and I’ll have more to tell you about this program in the coming weeks and months. In the mean time, if you have any thoughts on this new feature don’t hesitate to get in touch with me via the comments box below.
Dean Wright is Editor, Reuters Media
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The USA continues to embrace policies openly prejudicial against gays and lesbians, even as EU countries have eliminated similar policies. For example, U.S. Immigration refuses to allow gay Americans the right to sponsor their foreign partners for a visa. The Uniting American Families Act (H.R. 2221) has been pending in Congress for the past 7 years. The act would change immigration laws and allow gays and lesbians to sponsor their foreign partners.
The Los Angeles Times July 16, 2007 carried an in depth article about the UAFA and detailed the suffering of 40,000 American gays with foreign partners. My partner and I were one of the couples included in the article: at age 67, I moved to Barcelona, Spain so I could join my partner of 6 years.
I encourage Reuters to pick up this story, which illustrates the intolerable homophobia embedded in U.S. statutes. America is not a land of liberty and justice for gays and lesbians. It is an international disgrace.
- Posted by Aaron AshcraftDwight D. Eisenhower
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 March 28, 1969) was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (19531961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.[1] As a Republican, he was elected the 34th U.S. President, serving for two terms. As President, he ended the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.
The above is an example of what a great president can do. The United States needs a great president in the next election that will take care of the United States. We need to take care of our infrastructure, reduce our dependency on oil, increase the value of the dollar against the Pound and Euro, and remove illegal aliens.
- Posted by Joel ChaneyWhich President nominee is willing to say I will do this?
This needs too be asked of all President nominees.
I just finished reading Jui Chakravorty’s article on GM’s new Volt electric car. I find this whole thing very interesting, my son came home about two weeks ago with a movie he wanted me to see ” Who Killed The Electric Car”. I would be very interested to hear some investagative reporting on that movie, by what I saw, we already have, and have had the technology to be off FORIEGN OIL DEPENDENCE that is holding OUR United States of America hostage. Let that dust bowl over there dry up and blow away, if we only needed oil for heating i’m sure we could find enough in the gulf of mexico,Ok.& Alaska to cover us. COVER UP ?
Les Heuser
- Posted by Les HeuserFinally you introduced this feature. Thanks.
- Posted by Morochos“Myanmar arrests dissidents, squashes fuel protests”
–A Reuters headline
I’d like to recommend a story on the loss of the word “quash” from our lexicon and the conspiracy among certain headline editors who have engineered its demise.
- Posted by R NelsonYes, with respect to the honorable souls working at Reuters I would like to see more accurate expression of the 86 percent of votrs in America who demand congress do the honorable thing. In my city of vancouver we have aircraft dumping c.h.e.m.i.c.a.l.s. in the sky and there is a complete media blackout. This was America….now it’s a place where respected journalists talk in coded blogs about who should replace the president after the citzens take back thier government from the ‘new underworld order’.. so, is anyone from reuters going to report the storey of the century?… or shall we see what happens when the honest police officers begin refusing to soot lawful protesters emerging from the younger generation… i expect nothing will be done of course… so look for me as the plumber with his arms folded and his eyes diverted down when you flip through the yellow pages one day to hire an honest man to fix your crumbling ediface… bye
- Posted by cj harderI WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE DISCUSSION ON HOW THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO SOLVE THE BOTTLENECK MEDICAL PROBLEM THAT IS GOING TO HIT THE COUNTRY IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS.THE CURRENT MEDICAL SYSTEM IS SO CORRUPTED. THE POINTS OF THE MEDICAL TRIDENT, THE HMOS,THE GOVT, AND THE PRIVATE ARE LEAVING THE MAIN ACTOR OUT OF THE PICTURE. THAT ACTOR IS THE CIVIL POPULATION (MILITARY HAS A FANTASTIC SYSTEM), AND THAT ACTOR IS LOOKING IMPOTENTLY HOW THE TRIDENT TAKES THE LITTLE MEDICAL BENEFITS THEY EARNED. COMPANIES ARE TRYING TO SAVE VIA MEDICAL CUTS. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT UNIONS ARE NOT INVOLVED DUE TO CORRUPTED PACTS WITH RETAIL COMPANIES.WALMARIZATION OF OTHER COMPANIES ARE TAKING AWAY THE LITTLE COMPANIES GIVE. BLAMING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IS ONE SHORT-SIGHT SOLUTION TO COVER THE REAL PROBLEM.
- Posted by OSCAR CHAOWhy are you not covering the “dirty bomb” exercises going on all this week in Portland, Arizona and Guam (re: US forces)?
- Posted by G. L. Jones