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'Ludicrous': Reuters calls bomb 'strike'

March 27, 2011 14:13

ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Jewish groups have complained of “ludicrous” and “dangerous” reporting for the way news agency Reuters covered the bomb in central Jerusalem.

The attack, which Israeli police said was the work of terrorists, was described by the Reuters in copy sent out around the world as “a Palestinian strike”.

The article, later changed, initially said: “Police described the explosion as a “terrorist attack” – Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike”.

Critics said the use of quotation marks suggested that placing an explosive beside a busy bus stop and detonating in the middle of the day, an attack which injured 30 and killed one tourist, did not amount to an act of terror.