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Reuters upset over paper changing "insurgents" to "terrorists"
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Posted on 09/17/2004 9:24:52 AM PDT by art vandelay

Canada's government run news organization, CBC news, had a story this morning about a fight between Reuters and the National Post, one of Canada's largest newspapers.


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Canada's government run news organization, CBC news, had a story this morning about a fight between Reuters and the National Post, one of Canada's largest newspapers. The National Post has been changing some of the wording in stories coming from Reuters to reflect what they think is closer to the truth. The samples cited on CBC was refering to fighters in Falujah. Reuters calls them "insurgents", but the National Post changed it to "terrorists".
1 posted on 09/17/2004 9:24:53 AM PDT by art vandelay
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To: art vandelay

Now Reuters knows how WE feel.


2 posted on 09/17/2004 9:27:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: art vandelay

Ahem, I emailed the National Post on this a week or more ago, and then they actually started calling them terrorists. I must have alot of pull.


3 posted on 09/17/2004 9:28:37 AM PDT by spyone
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To: spyone

Well done spyone...nice to see we are having an impact.


4 posted on 09/17/2004 9:30:24 AM PDT by art vandelay (Ohhh me CANADA)
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To: spyone

It's your snappy pajamas!


5 posted on 09/17/2004 9:30:30 AM PDT by tsmith130 ("Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."" - GWB)
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To: spyone

Wow! How about emailing CBS for us.




~</;o) just kidding. Nice work.


6 posted on 09/17/2004 9:32:18 AM PDT by EggsAckley (............."........let them go naked for a while".......scary Terri Kerry............)
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To: art vandelay

See? There is hope for Canada! Not all of us take our marching orders from the socialist thought police!!


7 posted on 09/17/2004 9:35:42 AM PDT by bubman
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To: spyone

Behold the power of FReep!!


8 posted on 09/17/2004 9:37:42 AM PDT by Old Sarge (ZOT 'em all, let MOD sort 'em out!)
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To: art vandelay
Boo hoo. >gasp< Telling the truth in the media -- perish the thought!
9 posted on 09/17/2004 9:40:17 AM PDT by jcb8199
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To: spyone

Woo Hoo!


10 posted on 09/17/2004 9:40:29 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: tsmith130

LOL


11 posted on 09/17/2004 9:42:40 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Absalom, Absalom, Absalom....)
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To: art vandelay

The CBC should dump Reuters and switch to Fox News.


12 posted on 09/17/2004 9:51:12 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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LMAOROTF Are you kidding? The CBC makes Dan Rather look like a raving rabid right-wing fanatic. CBS is wholly objective in comparison.
13 posted on 09/17/2004 9:57:09 AM PDT by Don W (...and He looked down from the cross and said, "It is done".)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

Switch to FOX? Good grief, they don't even allow FOX into the country, let alone would use that net as a source!


14 posted on 09/17/2004 10:04:43 AM PDT by SAJ (Write SFV 7700 puts on any decent dip. Might get a chance to write the 7600 puts...much better.)
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To: SAJ

Congratulations to the National Post for finally waking up to the fact that nearly all terrorists are Muslims.

Attempts by left-leaning organizations including Reuters to misrepresent the proper nature of the violence they wreak on free society must stop.

The Post's refusal to continue use of sugar-coated terms of endearment such as 'insurgents' and 'militants' to describe the baby-killing murderous animals that have unleashed havoc on our world goes a long way to reminding us who the true enemy is, and thus, how to find resolution.

When you get to the point where words have no meaning, you are probably talking to a Socialist.


15 posted on 09/17/2004 2:30:53 PM PDT by Stallone (Warrior Freepers Rule The Earth)
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To: Stallone

Since the 'terrorist' directive, I've always described Reuters as a 'news' organization.


16 posted on 09/17/2004 2:34:11 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Just thinkin' about women and glasses of beer.)
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To: Warren_Piece

Great idea.

How about 'Socialist terrorist-appeasing weasel news' organization?


17 posted on 09/17/2004 2:38:18 PM PDT by Stallone (Warrior Freepers Rule The Earth)
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To: Stallone

Exactimundo, sir!


18 posted on 09/17/2004 2:44:32 PM PDT by SAJ (Write SFV 7700 puts on any decent dip. Might get a chance to write the 7600 puts...much better.)
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To: art vandelay

They don't like the term "terrorists"? Hmmmm. How about "murderers" or "killers"? Would that work?


19 posted on 09/17/2004 2:53:49 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("Hold on to your hats.....it's going to be a bumpy night")
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To: toomanygrasshoppers

You know, I prefer the use of 'murderers' and 'killers'.

It has a certain 'W' ring to it.


20 posted on 09/17/2004 2:55:59 PM PDT by Stallone (Warrior Freepers Rule The Earth)
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