Reuters editorial policy says:
"Reuters news operations are based on the company's Trust Principles which stipulate that the integrity, independence and freedom from bias of Reuters must be upheld at all times."
http://about.reuters.
com/aboutus/editorial/
The Reuters UK employee Mike Collett-White told the world his subjective opinion by
1. a predjudgment in the afternoon BEFORE the world music awards show took place
http://today.reuters.
com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=musicNews storyID=2006-11-15T143156Z_01_L15595865_RTRIDST_0_MUSIC-JACKSON-COMEBACK-DC.
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2. the world wide distribution of a headline which includes a subjective, biased judgement
http://today.reuters.
co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?
storyid=2006-11-16T014732Z_01_L15525553_RTRUKOC_0_UK-JACKSON.xml type=topNews WTmodLoc=Top+News-C3-More-4
3. selective choice of biased quotes
Mike Collett-Whites quoted Gareth Grundy, editor of Q music magazine, who called Michael Jackson "not an artist".
(He called a person who sold more than 100 million records "not an artist"!).
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There is a 3rd article by Collett-White. The title is: "Michael Jackson comeback gig 'a flop', reviews say. The headline is a lie because he was the FIRST who tell the world that it was "no thriller".
Collett-White pretends to just quote others but actually HE's the responsible one.
You find on the Reuters website phone numbers and email addresses to complain about the Reuters UK employee Mike Collett-White who has to be neutral according to the editorial policy.
http://about.
reuters.com/pressoffice/contacts.asp
What Reuters presented the world was the OPINION of ONE single person.
Hundreds of sources sticked to the biased news and distributed it all over the world (= copy-and-paste-journalism).
No news about tabloid trash queen Paris, maximum 10% of the copied news about other artists, 90% about Michael Jackson. Why this?
...
because - like the Mirror titled - "he's bad"?
WHO's BAD?
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