Friday, December 29, 2006
Reuters’ Bias Strikes Again.
In their Year In Pictures slideshow, our friends at Reuters have a seriously diminished sense of irony. In one picture they show a half-dozen Mexicans riding a rail car, heading for the US/Mexican border. Here’s part of the caption (emphasis added)
On the very next picture in the slideshow they show an African who has just arrived, via a perilous boat journey, in Spain. And here’s part of the caption for this image:
So, I guess when a foreigner violates a country’s laws by crossing the boarder into that country without proper authorization, he’s either an “undocumented migrant” or an “illegal immigrant,” depending on whether it’s the US or Spain.
Ah, well. I think I’ll suggest that the Reuters “news” service be highlighted on the next episode of Mythbusters.
In their Year In Pictures slideshow, our friends at Reuters have a seriously diminished sense of irony. In one picture they show a half-dozen Mexicans riding a rail car, heading for the US/Mexican border. Here’s part of the caption (emphasis added)
Immigrants travel on a cargo train heading to the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, May 5, 2006. Every day Mexican trains are used by immigrants to cross the country, heading for the border between Mexico and United States. The U.S. Border Patrol said on Wednesday it had arrested 724,613 undocumented migrants crossing the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border from Mexico since October 1 last year, a rise of 6 percent from the same period a year earlier.
On the very next picture in the slideshow they show an African who has just arrived, via a perilous boat journey, in Spain. And here’s part of the caption for this image:
A would-be immigrant crawls after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain's Canary Island, May 5, 2006. The scene on Gran Tarajal beach was a stark, unforgiving reminder of the desperation that drives people to leave their homes and loved ones and cross dangerous seas for unknown shores. Nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from Africa have arrived this year in the Canary Islands -- a palm-fringed sunseekers' haven and outpost of Europe off Africa's coast.
So, I guess when a foreigner violates a country’s laws by crossing the boarder into that country without proper authorization, he’s either an “undocumented migrant” or an “illegal immigrant,” depending on whether it’s the US or Spain.
Ah, well. I think I’ll suggest that the Reuters “news” service be highlighted on the next episode of Mythbusters.
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