Emptyage — Reuters cannot — must not — get a reputation as a...

Reuters cannot — must not — get a reputation as a right-wing media outlet. We have to report the news as impartially as we can. In this case, there was no story, and nothing to report. Inventing a tenuous and intellectually-dishonest link between Soros and OWS might get us traffic from Matt Drudge — but that’s traffic which, frankly, we don’t particularly value or care for. Much more importantly, it serves to undermine the heart of what Reuters stands for. And we can never afford to do that.

On George Soros, Occupy Wall Street, and Reuters | Felix Salmon

Great follow-up by Felix Salmon, taking down his own employer over that horseshit Soros / Occupy Wall Street story.