{"id":7370,"date":"2015-04-17T06:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2015-04-17T06:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T11:17:51","slug":"how-reliable-is-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7370","title":{"rendered":"How Reliable Is Reuters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/reliable-reuters.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Reliable Is Reuters?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">People see their own nation, and foreign nations, through the filter of the press that\u2019s available to them; so, if that filter is systematically distorting (distorting in ways that most of the others similarly do), then democracy cannot function, public opinion can be manipulated and warped; and wars might even start that shouldn\u2019t \u2014 something Americans have tragically been experiencing lots of, during recent decades, such as when we invaded Iraq in 2003 (just to cite the most famous of many examples).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A typical Reuters \u2018news\u2019 report will be examined here, in order to determine how high the journalistic standards of the Reuters \u2018news\u2019 organization actually are. Reuters is an internationally respected \u2018news\u2019 organization, as reliable as any major \u2018news\u2019 organization in the U.S. and Europe \u2014 thus, it\u2019s a good source to provide a case-example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The particular report, dated Thursday, April 16th, is titled\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cRussia blames U.S. for security crises and turmoil in Ukraine.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/04\/16\/ukraine-crisis-russia-idINKBN0N71P720150416\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cRussia blames U.S. for security crises and turmoil in Ukraine.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Its first sentence is a simple and true statement of fact:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cTop Russian officials accused the United States on Thursday\u00a0of seeking political and military dominance and sought to put blame on\u00a0the West for international\u00a0security crises, including the conflict in\u00a0east Ukraine.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The second sentence is anything but factual: it is instead contemptuous of the Russian speakers and of what they said, yet offering no evidence that what they said was false, nor is it offering evidence in support of the report\u2019s own contemptuous attitude toward them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cEvoking Cold War-style\u00a0rhetoric, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a drive by the\u00a0United States and its allies to bring Kiev closer to the West was a\u00a0threat to\u00a0Moscow and had forced it to react.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Reliable Is Reuters? People see their own nation, and foreign nations, through the filter of the press that\u2019s available to them; so, if that filter is systematically distorting (distorting in ways that most of the others similarly do), then democracy cannot function, public opinion can be manipulated and warped; and wars might even start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,496,512,1426,655,4795,683,694,821],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-media","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-reliability","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}