Well no it did not, as you can see there is a bias spin to Reuters
"Anglophone bias in the world media
It has been observed that the world's principal suppliers of news, the
news agencies, and the main buyers of news are
Anglophone corporations and this gives an Anglophone bias to the selection and depiction of events. Anglophone definitions of what constitutes news are paramount; the news provided originates in Anglophone capitals and responds first to their own rich domestic markets.
Despite the plethora of news services, most news printed and broadcast throughout the world each day comes from only a few major agencies, the three largest of which are the
Associated Press,
Reuters and
Agence France-Presse. Although these agencies are 'global' in the sense of their activities, they each retain significant associations with particular nations, namely
France (AFP), the
United States (AP) and the
United Kingdom (Reuters).
[59] Chambers and Tinckell suggest that the so-called global media are agents of Anglophone values which privilege norms of 'competitive individualism,
laissez-faire capitalism, parliamentary democracy and consumerism.' They see the presentation of the English language as international as a further feature of Anglophone dominance."
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I have yet to see a news agency/outlet that is not bias.
“The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn’t’ witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.” — Edward Jay Epstein,
Again, in effort to be clear, the Allen West article has been disqualified as news beginning with the title.
Wow: Muslim beheads shopper in IKEA store; look what IKEA is doing in response
For starters, there is no evidence that there was a beheading. Real news doesn't start off with a "
wow".
A REAL news story only reports FACTS, without opinions, assumptions, characterizations, or emotions. That is what makes it NEWS, rather than a dramatic interpretation of news.
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right-wing biased report is "Yesterday just as innocent children were getting off their school bus, a Democrat exposed himself to the whole busload by setting himself on fire, thus burning all his clothes off right in front of them. I think this is just the logical conclusion of Liberal/Progressive values. Watch out -- the Liberals may set YOU on fire next!!"
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left-wing biased report says "In an apparent hate crime, a victim of the crassly wealthy bankers of Wall Street who illegally foreclosed on his home was burned at the stake in a public park yesterday by armed Tea Party thugs, bused in by The Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch. We will be covering tonight's candlelight vigil for the murdered man at 8 pm."
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real news reporter says "At 3 pm yesterday afternoon, a man in Times Square burst into flames in what is being called "spontaneous human combustion" by police. More information to come as the incident is investigated."
Any so-called news story that characterizes people in any way, such as "The Obamite re-invigoration ", or "dangerous" or "short-sighted" or " tyrannical" or any other term is not NEWS. Any so-called news story that puts any layer of approval or disapproval on the reporting of an incident is not NEWS, it is a dramatic performance. Even when covering stories of murder or rape or child abuse... actual NEWS does not use emotional terms about victims or abusive terms about suspects, because that is not in the realm of real NEWS. It only reflects the opinion that the news-reader is trying to project at you.
News is what happened. Bias is the spin put on it by celebrity performers who want to tell you what to think about what happened, tell you what emotion you should experience according to their perception, not your own.
Can I be any clearer than that?
The article from Reuters that was posted was actual news.