Score One for Reuters
Charles Johnson
Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 10:51 am PST • Views: 328
In the Reuters page for feedback from online readers, a moonbat writes in with the now-standard leftist apology for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s genocidal statements: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. (Hat tip: Frank.)
Iran president says Israel’s days are numbered
“Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out,” he added.
You continue to report that “Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’” even though many Mideast experts have stated that the interpretation of what Ahmadinejad actually said was that the “Zionist regime will not last.”
In other words, rather than calling for ethnic cleansing, as your news stories imply, Iranian officials are calling for regime change—a common enough phrase these days. Are your reporters and editors deliberately misinforming the public?
Jan
And to give credit where it’s due, Reuters takes a stand against downplaying Ahmadinejad’s comment:
We actually had access to this speech, and heard the president’s words verbatim from our own TV footage. We stand behind our translation. In this case, he used the word “mahv,” which in Farsi means “wiped off”: Editor
Frank says: