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Where are my comments?
Pope John Paul nears sainthood, to be beatified
See the attached documents and please explain why my comments are inappropriate. I have informed the truth as it could be.
L.P.F.
You’re asking why your comments on this story didn’t make it online? We get that from a number of readers, and usually there is a very good reason.
Typo rant…
Zsa Zsa Gabor smiling after surgery, husband says
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Zsa Zsa Gabor smiled and ate ice cream on Saturday, a day after doctors amputated much of the actress’ leg to fight a gangrene infection that could have killer her, her husband said.
PLEASE, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, WITH ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY AND AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY ON HAND, YOU’D THINK THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE COULD DO SPELL CHECK. PERHAPS HE SHOULD EVEN RETURN TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
IT ANNOYS ME WHEN I AM MORE SHOCKED BY THE WAY AN ARTICLE IS WRITTEN RATHER THAN BY THE CONTENTS.
Gunfire verbs…
Photos add bizarre twist to Tucson suspect’s frantic last night
Loughner is accused of spraying a crowd with a semi-automatic pistol outside a Safeway grocery store last Saturday, killing six people and wounding 13, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in critical condition at a Tucson hospital.
At 9:41 a.m., he took a cab up to the Safeway store, entering with the driver to get change shortly before 10 a.m. Ten minutes later, he pumped bullet after bullet into the crowd at a congressional meeting with Giffords.
I want to point out errors in the article that was run by Reuters, this is not correct. Semiautomatic firearms do not spray bullets, they are fired from the firearm.
Snow in how many states?
Major winter storm wallops Northeast
The National Weather Service reported snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 states — only Florida was spared — and much of the South was still battling icy conditions that made roads dangerous and led to several traffic deaths.
I read this article and my question is, if there are 50 states 48 should have snow not 49? Unless there is snow in Hawaii too.
L.M.D.
Or people could just use common sense and figure “Hey if there are in fact 50 states and 49 had snow, Florida being the only one without, then that must mean Hawaii did too!” If they do not believe that there are plenty of weather sources to verify it.
Giffords headline
Giffords’ brain benefits from benign route of bullet
TUCSON, Ariz, Jan 9 (Reuters) – U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords suffered what her doctors on Sunday called a “devastating wound” to her brain in a point-blank shooting, but the bullet’s relatively benign trajectory bodes well for her recovery.
“Giffords’ brain benefits from benign route of bullet” — so she should be happy?!
To “benefit” is to make something better. For something to be “benign” means it’s at least harmless, if not good.
Typo in the lede…
US payrolls up 103,000 in Dec, jobless rate falls
NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs that expected in December, suggesting the Federal Reserve will complete its asset buying program, but the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest in more than 1-1/2 years.
You have a major TYPO. Nothing looks worse than bad grammar in the lead sentence in big print:
“The economy created far fewer jobs THAT expected in December…”
Erroneous Giffords report
US Rep. Giffords shot dead in Arizona, gunman held
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan 8 (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona died after being shot in the head while meeting constituents at a grocery store in Tucson, NPR reported on Saturday.
Giffords, a 40-year-old Democrat in her third term in Congress, was shot point blank by an unidentified gunman who fired indiscriminately into the crowd, NPR and other U.S. media said.
Your reporting without adequate confirmation that Congresswoman Giffords had died when she was, in fact, still alive was irresponsible and represented an appalling lapse in judgment and journalistic professionalism. Being first is never more important than being right.
Galileo and the Bible
God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – God’s mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday.
Benedict and his predecessor John Paul have been trying to shed the Church’s image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible.
I would like to know where in the Bible it says that the earth does not revolve around the sun. I would love for you to show me because it’s not there.
A death at the zoo
Zebra the latest fatality at Canadian zoo
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – A zebra has died of unknown causes at a Canadian zoo that has come under fire for several animal fatalities in recent years, officials said on Friday.
In a population of several hundred animals you would expect a reasonable percent to die each year as do people.
Do you report every death in your news organisation with a comment on how many have died before there?
It may be interesting to note a comparison to another zoo of similar size with a notably lower death rate?
I suspect the commenter would then have had a comparison and known why he was expected to raise an eyebrow in concern … if ALL zoos have similar death rates, there was no reason for the story … if NO other zoos have even half this death rate, up goes the eyebrow, right?
I’m not a journalist, but I’m thinkin’ a bit of research to determine if this actually IS a story would be in order, and if it isn’t a story, then the real story would be why officials are messin’ with this zoo, right?
Mystery plane?
Mystery plane prompts Capitol evacuation, scramble of jets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mystery airplane prompted an evacuation of the Capitol building and scrambling of military fighter jets on Saturday but authorities said the false alarm was caused by a commercial airliner briefly losing radio contact.
A Federal Aviation Administration official said a Piedmont Airlines plane in the Washington, D.C. area briefly lost radio contact and military planes took off to find it.
The title of this story is what flat upsets a lot of us readers…
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