“Credibility, an editor once said, “is the lifeblood of our profession. Without it not one person will believe a single word that we write.”
Hence, Reuters’ categorical denial of bias in reporting the Holocaust-like events of October 7 in the Gaza envelope can be, as the saying goes, laughed out of court. “Reuters is committed to delivering independent, accurate and unbiased news.” Really? A freelance “stringer” from Gaza, whose Bible is the Koran and whose family are back in Gaza City scared stiff of what Hamas might do to them, can deliver independent, accurate, and unbiased photographic or video images of a pogrom on Jews? His work must inevitably be advocacy journalism at best or anti-Semitic propaganda at worst.
