Why Is Reuters Not Able To Correctly Report Number Of Murdered People?

I’m sorry in advance for the macabre topic, but it has to be pointed out that worldwide wire service Reuters gets confused when counting beyond 3.

In January this year, right after the INS published the terror report for 2013, Reuters reported  the death of would-be terrorist Muhammad Mubarak, and casually inserted in their article the following sentence:

Violence in the West Bank has increased in recent months, and at least 19 Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed in the occupied territory since U.S.-brokered peace talks resumed in July.

The number of murdered Israelis is wrong. It should have said 3.

Of the six Israelis killed in terror attacks in 2013, five were killed in the West Bank – as opposed to 2012, when all of the 10 Israeli fatalities from terror attacks took place inside the Green Line. Of those killed, three were civilians and three were members of the security forces.

INS 2013 fatalities

Let’s count to 6:

  1. April 30th, Stabbing attack that killed Evyatar Borowski, in Tapuach.
  2. September 30th, Sergeant Tomer Hazan was kidnapped to Qlaqiya and murdered.
  3. September 22nd, Staff Sergeant Kobi Gal was sniped in Hebron.
  4. October 10th, Colonel (res.) Sarya Ofer was murdered in Brosh Habik’aa.
  5. November 13th, Corporal Eden Atias was stabbed to death on a bus in Afula.
  6. December 24th, Salah Abu Ltayef was sniped in Nahal Oz.

In underscore are the deaths after July, and in bold are the deaths in Judea and Samaria, AKA “the occupied territory”. Afula and Nahal Oz were not conquered by Jordanian or Egyptian forces.

  1. April 30th, Stabbing attack that killed Evyatar Borowski, in Tapuach.
  2. September 30th, Sergeant Tomer Hazan was kidnapped to Qlaqiya and murdered.
  3. September 22nd, Staff Sergeant Kobi Gal was sniped in Hebron.
  4. October 10th, Colonel (res.) Sarya Ofer was murdered in Brosh Habik’aa.
  5. November 13th, Corporal Eden Atias was stabbed to death on a bus in Afula.
  6. December 24th, Salah Abu Ltayef was sniped in Nahal Oz.

Lets count: 1.. 2.. 3..

That wasn’t difficult was it?

So why isn’t Reuters capable of the same first grade math?

I contacted several of their writers on Twitter, but the factual error remains.

Fast forward to Friday, when France arrested Mehdi Nemmouche, the perpetrator of the Brussels Jewish Museum anti-Semitic terror attack. Here’s how Reuters reported it:

 A 29-year-old Frenchman believed to have returned recently from fighting with Islamist militant rebels in Syria has been arrested for the killing of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum last month, prosecutors said on Sunday.

The number of people he killed is wrong, It should have said 4.

Four people were killed at a Jewish museum in Belgium on Saturday in an attack that European Jewish leaders are already comparing to 2012’s massacre at the Ozar HaTorah school in Toulouse, France.

The attack, which took place at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels on Saturday, is being approached as racially motivated by Belgian authorities, who posited that it was motivated by anti-Semitism.

Let’s count to 4:

  1. Emmanuel Riva.
  2. Miriam Riva.
  3. Dominique Sabrier.
  4. Alexandre Strens.

Let’s count: 1.. 2.. 3.. 4..

That wasn’t difficult was it?

So why isn’t Reuters, (and BBC) capable of the same first grade math?

If wire services can’t count, and get basic fact wrong, who knows what other factual errors, lies and fallacies they print.

2 thoughts on “Why Is Reuters Not Able To Correctly Report Number Of Murdered People?”

  1. I work for Thomson Reuters in NYC and ever since Thomson became part of Reuters the company has turned to sh*t and I cannot wait to retire from that anti-Semtic British company.

  2. http://r-mew.blogspot.com/2011/12/allyn-fisher-ilan-polemicist.html
    Allyn Fisher-Ilan: polemicist, propagandist, ventriloquist
    December 17, 2011

    Deeply dishonest Reuters correspondent Allyn Fisher-Ilan pens a blistering polemic on Jewish settlers who last week attacked an IDF outpost in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) and allegedly vandalized an abandoned mosque.

    In the handful of incidents where she reports, Fisher-Ilan typically refers to Israelis who stage violent demonstrations against the Israeli separation barrier and throw rocks at soldiers (often seriously injuring them) as merely “pro-Palestinian” or with the genteel sobriquet, “leftists”. But in the case of Israelis protesting against the demolition of their homes in the area, engaging in violence indistinguishable from that of Fisher-Ilan’s beloved “leftists”, the Reuters correspondent is just a bit more, shall we say, vitriolic:

    (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday approved steps to crack down onviolent ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers after a rampage at a West Bank military base and torching of a mosque’s facade stirred public outrage.
    Radical settlers are bent on foiling government efforts to shut down unauthorized outposts they have set up in occupied West Bank territory where Palestinians seek a state, although Israel has continued to expand larger official settlements. […]

    On Wednesday, radical Jews burnt the facade of a Jerusalem mosque not recently in use and scrawled “Death to the Arabs” on its walls, an assault blamed on a group that has vandalized other Muslim houses of worship over the past two years.While we don’t condone violence or property damage committed by belligerents on either side of this conflict, we just want to point out Fisher-Ilan’s willful, skillful, and hypocritical use of propagandistic rhetoric in an effort to manipulate readers to adopt her own patent political ideology.

    Note also, how the Reuters correspondent then falsely attributes her employer’s propaganda mantra to the Israeli Prime Minister:

    Netanyahu said further that he would increase funding for investigations of violence in occupied territory. But he rejected calls to treat Israelis suspected of violence there as “terrorist targets,” as Palestinian militants are handled.Netanyahu did not say, and would likely never refer to the territory as “occupied”. Fisher-Ilan has simply fabricated the citation out of whole cloth.

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