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So much for accuracy of Reuters. What else do they get wrong when they can't even tell when something is a bank or not? Sad thing is these kinds of articles ge

So much for accuracy of Reuters. What else do they get wrong when they can't even tell when something is a bank or not? Sad thing is these kinds of articles get translated and end up in hundreds of papers all over the world all as fact.

turnermatt 9y ago
Google “Thomson Reuters Blockchain” to find out why
Theodores 9y ago
What is also funny is when you have an obvious spelling mishtake in a Reuters article and for that spelling mistake to be copied and pasted into many, many places. In this way you can tell which newspapers actually have people reading what they publish and which ones can't be bothered.
AznHisoka 9y ago
I always assumed everything in reuters was written by bots.
ataturk 9y ago
Well, don't you think there is a vested interest among certain parties to make any and all attempts to legitimize this crypto-trash? There's billions of dollars at stake. I have this former colleague whom I email occasionally for shits and giggles. He believes he's an Ethereum millionaire and never hesitates to bring it up every time we trade messages. It's goddamn infuriating the way these people carry on. Yeah, MAYBE he's a millionaire, and maybe next week the whole thing implodes, too.
dawhizkid 9y ago
If you've ever read an article about something you know really well (company you work for, someone you personally know well, topic you are an expert in), I think you'll find that in most news articles there are exaggerations/questionable numbers printed all the time.
- dbasedweeb 9y ago
  And then the Gell-Mann Amnesia kicks in! “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

turnermatt 9y ago

Google “Thomson Reuters Blockchain” to find out why

Theodores 9y ago

What is also funny is when you have an obvious spelling mishtake in a Reuters article and for that spelling mistake to be copied and pasted into many, many places. In this way you can tell which newspapers actually have people reading what they publish and which ones can't be bothered.

AznHisoka 9y ago

I always assumed everything in reuters was written by bots.

ataturk 9y ago

Well, don't you think there is a vested interest among certain parties to make any and all attempts to legitimize this crypto-trash? There's billions of dollars at stake. I have this former colleague whom I email occasionally for shits and giggles. He believes he's an Ethereum millionaire and never hesitates to bring it up every time we trade messages. It's goddamn infuriating the way these people carry on. Yeah, MAYBE he's a millionaire, and maybe next week the whole thing implodes, too.

dawhizkid 9y ago

If you've ever read an article about something you know really well (company you work for, someone you personally know well, topic you are an expert in), I think you'll find that in most news articles there are exaggerations/questionable numbers printed all the time.

dbasedweeb 9y ago
And then the Gell-Mann Amnesia kicks in! “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...