Truly silly stuff |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 3:54 pm |
| Tags: media matters, silly stuff, humor, james taranto, media, reuters |
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The following is James Taranto’s entire take, at today’s Best of the Web, on Reuters’ most recent journalistic innovation: The Lone Reuter From Reuters: By Noor Mohammad Sherzai BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said. . . . “I saw the fire brigade vehicle rushing to the area at top speed. Somehow its brakes failed and hit one police vehicle and coalition vehicles, then the Americans started firing,” said Reuters correspondent Noor Mohammad Sherzai. That’s right, Noor Mohammad Sherzai is quoting himself! (Or herself, as Noor apparently is an epicene name.) We thought this was odd, but we wanted a second opinion. So we spoke with veteran journalist James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal. “You’re right, it is odd,” he told us. “But it’s [ Full article ] |
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