When discussing bias at Reuters, the first thing to keep in mind is that the organization is headquartered in London. While there is a clear anti-Israel slant to Reuters' reporting (documented here, here and here), editors in London honestly believe that the agency is being objective, because its dispatches are in the mainstream when compared to other British and European news outlets. The difference is, here in America, we aren't as exposed to overseas newspapers as we are to Reuters' news articles, which are republished in American newspapers and on websites such as Yahoo!.
I was often a lone voice of dissent in the New York newsroom when I tried to point out to my colleagues the blatant bias in our reporting on Israel's struggle against Palestinian terrorism. My case was bolstered one day when the front page of Reuters' internal website featured a picture of our editor-in-chief, Geert Linnebank, meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Accompanying the photograph was an item boasting about how glowingly Assad spoke of Reuters, which he viewed as a great source of news on the Middle East. After that, I joked that our brochures should include the tagline, "endorsed by a Syrian dictator."
Don't stop at Assad. I'm sure the rest of the world's dictators and terrorists feel the same way. You could say the same for the rest of the left wing media.
Klein goes on to defend Reuters in the doctored Hajj photos. But what he and all the other outlets have so far failed to address are the staged photos. And we have video proof as well as two CNN reporters who say they witnessed photos being staged. And yet, all the media outlets deny it. Why?
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