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I just pulled up two Reuters articles to look.

First article had 12 paragraphs, and a grand total of 12 sentences. 7 of those are quotes/paraphrases of what people said/claimed. Oh and the page had 20 ad images.

60% of the article is "s/he said X". The remaining 40% are low-fat versions of something one can find on Wikipedia.

Another one:

10 paragraphs, 11 sentences. 5 are quotes/paraphrases. 15 (fifteen) ad images!

That is not journalism, that's Twitter with extra steps, masquerading as news. At this point, if I didn't know any better, I'd call Reuters a glorified ad farm!



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