Why We Hate Reuters

Every first year media student – hell, every third grader – knows that tone matters. So it’s difficult not to suspect less than noble motives when Reuters describes the anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate groups, as a “Jewish pressure group” (you know all those Jews, with their dark plots and their secretive influence). Keep in mind that this is the same news organization that describes the Council on American Islamic Relations as “America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group” (see here and here for examples). CAIR of course has been repeatedly and conclusively linked major international terrorist organizations. The ADL, alternatively, has no such ties – and yet it is a shadowy and illegitimate pressure group while CAIR is apparently fighting the good fight. I guess when you don