Should Reuters be investigated?

Politics Central ^ | August 10, 2006

[ReignOfError]

It's JAMA-time, baby!

What does the Journal of the American Medical Association have to do with ... oh. Never mind.

[AmericanMade1776]

To: AmericanMade1776 Interestingly, I just did a websearch and discovered that the Rothschilds purchased Reuters back in the 1800's because they did not like the media coverage they were getting. Don't know how much of it they still own. 34 posted on 08/10/2006 4:53:48 PM EDT by Brilliant

Now we are cooking with gas. Not the first time some haughty tauty Brit got greedy and tried to cover it up.

[AmericanMade1776]

In the 1840s, the latest technology was the electric telegraph and Paul Julius Reuter, a German-Jew, saw that news need no longer take days or weeks to travel from one country to another. In 1850, the 34-year-old Reuter was based in Aachen on the border of Germany and Belgium and began to use the newly opened Berlin-Aachen telegraph to send news back to Berlin. But there was a 76-mile gap in the telegraph between Aachen and Brussels. Reuter spotted the opportunity to speed up news between Brussels and Berlin by using carrier pigeons to bridge the gap in the telegraph.

In 1851, Reuter moved to London as attempts to lay a submarine telegraph cable from Dover to Calais looked like succeeding, after failures in 1847 and 1850. He set up his "Submarine Telegraph" office in October 1851 just before the opening of the cable in November, and agreed a contract with the London Stock Exchange to provide stock prices from the continental exchanges in return for access to the London prices, which he supplied to Paris brokers.

In 1865, Reuter's private firm was restructured and became a limited company called Reuter's Telegram Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

[AmericanMade1776]

In the early 19th century Rothschild set up a Europe-wide network of messengers and carrier pigeon stations, gathering information that could affect his investments. He soon garnered a reputation for being first with the news.

According to popular legend, when the Battle of Waterloo was being fought in June 1815, other speculators watched Rothschild's stocks in an attempt to guess who would win. Shortly after the battle ended, and long before anyone else knew who was the victor, he began selling stocks. Everyone assumed this meant Napoleon had won and Europe was lost. Panic selling ensued. When prices crashed, Rothschild bought everything in sight and made a packet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschilds

[AmericanMade1776]

Speaking of Rothschilds....read how they fit into this opinion piece about Mel Gibson's DUI

Gibson's claim that Jews have caused all the world's wars is only a less subtle and more grandiose version of the current mantra that "neoconservatives" have led us into war in Iraq. Make no mistake, most critics on both the left and right who inveigh against "neoconservatives" really mean "the Jews" or "Jewish influence" has caused this war. Old-fashioned anti-Semitism used to blame "Jewish bankers" for controlling the world, now, apparently, it's Jewish intellectuals who pull the strings. The Rothschilds have been replaced as villains by Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20060803/cm_uc_crlchx/linda_chavez20060803

[Brilliant]

Hmmmm... Guess it hadn't occurred to me that the Rothschilds were Jewish. Interesting.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I wonder if you are the one who posted an earlier link to wikipedia's discussion of media bias. Whoever it was, if they are involved in editing wikipedia, I have a suggestion on the list of Journalism_scandals on the site:

Contents

[]

• 1 High-profile journalism scandals
  • 1.1 Walter Duranty, The New York Times (1930s)
  • 1.2 Janet Cooke, Washington Post (1980-1981)
  • 1.3 "Waiting to Explode," Dateline NBC (1992)
  • 1.4 The Oregonian's coverage of the Packwood scandal (1992)
  • 1.5 Bob Wisehart, Sacramento Bee (Mid 1990s)
  • 1.6 Stephen Glass, The New Republic (1998)
  • 1.7 Patricia Smith, The Boston Globe (1998)
  • 1.8 Operation Tailwind, CNN NewsStand (1998)
  • 1.9 Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe (1998)
  • 1.10 Michael Gallagher (1998)
  • 1.11 Jay Forman, Slate (2001)
  • 1.12 Bob Greene, Chicago Tribune (2002)
  • 1.13 Christopher Newton, Associated Press (2002)
  • 1.14 Houston Chronicle Light Rail Controversy (2002)
  • 1.15 Brian Walski, The Los Angeles Times (2003)
  • 1.16 James Forlong, Sky News (2003)
  • 1.17 CNN coverage of Iraq (2003)
  • 1.18 Jayson Blair, The New York Times (2003)
  • 1.19 "Gropegate", The Los Angeles Times (2003)
  • 1.20 Jack Kelley, USA Today (2004)
  • 1.21 Stephen Dunphy, Seattle Times (2004)
  • 1.22 The Oregonian's coverage of the Goldschmidt scandal (2004)
  • 1.23 The Boston Globe's Fake "GI Rape" Photographs(2004)
  • 1.24 The ABC News election memo (2004)
  • 1.25 Dan Rather, Mary Mapes and "Memogate" (2004)
  • 1.26 Eason Jordan, CNN (2005)
  • 1.27 Fake American hostage, Associated Press (2005)
  • 1.28 Eric Slater, Los Angeles Times (2005)
  • 1.29 Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press (2005)
  • 1.30 Barry Schweid, Associated Press (2005)
  • 1.31 Barbara Stewart, The Boston Globe (2005)
  • 1.32 Diana Griego Erwin, Sacramento Bee (2005)
  • 1.33 Chris Cecil, Cartersville Daily News (2005)
  • 1.34 The Daily Egyptian's fake orphan (2005)
  • 1.35 Bush administration journalism scandals (2005)
  • 1.36 Jim Van Vliet, Sacramento Bee (2005)
  • 1.37 Tim Ryan, Honolulu Star-Bulletin (2006)
  • 1.38 Hassan Fattah, New York Times Abu Ghraib photos (2006)
  • 1.39 Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times (2006)
  • 1.40 Paul Bradley, Richmond Times-Dispatch (2006)
  • 1.41 Philip Chien, Wired News (2006)
• 2 See also
• 3 External links

I notice the absence of any referece in this list to the inaccurate and premature call of Florida for Gore before the polls were closed in all of Florida during the 2000 election . . . followed the next morning by an orgy of condemnation of Fox News Channel for calling the Florida election right. With one clear exception, the delay between the closing of any state's polls and the call of that state for Bush was longer than the delay between the closing of another state's polls and the calling of that state for Gore, with Gore ultimately winning the state by a smaller margin. And the journalists themselves made a point of the fact that the calls of states for Bush were coming in slower than expected.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[AmericanMade1776]

Brilliant wrote: Hmmmm... Guess it hadn't occurred to me that the Rothschilds were Jewish. Interesting.

Me either, did not know.

[AmericanMade1776]

Thanks for that list of Journalism Scandals, I hear this New Scandal in the Media has a name... REUTERGATE.