Bappa Majumdar and Kamran Haider
Reuters
December 26, 2008
Pakistan cancelled army leave and redeployed some troops Friday in a sign of rising tension with India.
The United States urged both sides to refrain from further raising tensions, already high after India blamed Islamist militants based in Pakistan for attacks on Mumbai last month that killed 179 people.
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- the terrorists India caught, before and after the attacks, SAID THEY WERE FROM PAKISTAN, TRAINED by ISI PAKISTAN, and they were MUSLIM.
India didn't pull the blame out of the air and say - "let's see, was it Burma, Thailand, Afghanistan, no, let's blame it on Pakistan."
Let's redo a few statements on the Reuters website using Reuters-think:
They say:
Reuters has a diverse and unique network of specialists and can provide market moving news and expertise to drive customer's decision making. Journalists are trained to inform a demanding clientele of finance professionals; they adhere to high standards of sourcing and fact-checking and always make sure to separate facts from rumors.
Should say:
Reuters may have a very diverse and unique network of specialists, although that was reported by a Reuters public Relations spokesperson.. The unique (although unique may be too strong of a word - perhaps - different would be more appropriate ...the different network of employees (they may or may not be specialists, depending on their academic credentials and years of working in the field they write about) can provide market moving news (News may be too specific a term for what Reuters may or may not provide. It will often offer opportunities at what some people would consider news, but not necessarily news, and what others might call blather) and expertise to drive customer's decision making (Reuters is trying to influence what it is you believe based upon the stories they create and occasionally report). Journalists are trained (trained is a very specific term connoting academic training as well as experience based on years of practice. To be a journalist you must first graduate from a four year university, with a degree in journalism. It would be preferred if said degree were from an institution where multiple ideas and thoughts were available - where a multi-faceted approach to learning was embraced rather than a single monolithic forced learning process that substitutes for education. ) to inform a demanding clientele of finance professionals; they adhere to high standards of sourcing (again, very subjective and often time consuming especially when there is a deadline - sometimes sourcing simply means - make it up and ensure everyone basically agrees and if the people who disagree are named Bush, Blair, white men, Jews, Israelis, Christians, US military, or any other group that are not in favor at the moment, disregard the truth and facts and substitute the prevailing opinions of the moment.) and fact-checking (unless the facts are contrary to prevailing public opinion, most especially the opinions of Palestinians and terrorists) and always make sure to separate facts from rumors (Reuters tries very hard not to laugh when they write this statement - facts and rumors are very subjective. Sometimes, it is simply easier to accept the opinions of Palestinians, terrorists, Russians, Chinese, and the French over the statements and facts of anyone else).
I would go on, but it would take forever to fully explicate the statements Reuters make at any given time. I would be at this 24/7, just sorting out what it is they say they do or say they say.
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