Of course there’s no crudely obvious editorializing. But the story is a classic puff piece–a full, faithful account of one side of the matter it addresses, the plight of illegal immigrants, with no mention of the immigrants’ impact on the communities they infest.

Do you really think you’re fooling anyone?

So much for “Reuters has a proud history of factual, unbiased news coverage.”

I’ll be sharing news of this biased and infactual reporting, trust me. Just please don’t lie in the future, and if you have the integrity, please make amends over this issue. Your mistake is wrongfully slandering a person and his country, with dire effects.
You wouldn’t like the same treatment, would you?

You mean, like this?:

‘Strong job growth eases recession fears’

By Glenn Somerville

“That averaged out to about 97,000 jobs a month during the third quarter…”

This is barely HALF the number of jobs required just to absorb the number of new workers entering the work force each month! By comparison, during the Clinton years monthly job growth averaged over 236,000 — even when you include the 7.3% unemployment rate and anemic job growth he inherited from Bush Sr.

Does the Republican Party pay you guys to write this stuff?

Professor Cole has given us the correct translation of what Ahmadinejad said, so your contention is manifestly incorrect. To yet refuse to admit it because “The Iranian authorities have never challenged our translation of the words…” is preposterous. They have no particular obligation to spend time correcting Reuters’ mistakes.

You, however, do.

No, you don’t.

In the article, ‘Iranian president hits out at Israel, U.S.’ by Claudia Parsons, posted today, it states, “…Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map…”

This is total baloney and oft-repeated propaganda in the western media, designed to fan the flames of war against Iran.

Translation of phrase “wiped off the map” (from Wikipedia):

Many news sources have presented one of Ahmadinejad’s phrases in Persian as a statement that “Israel must be wiped off the map”, an English idiom which means to “obliterate totally”,and “destroy completely”, such as by powerful bombs, or other catastrophes.

Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History, translates the Persian phrase as:

The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e eshghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad).

According to Cole, “Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ because no such idiom exists in Persian” and “He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse.”