what's the story of reuters trying to buy persia, if you don't mind me asking?
No worries, thank you for the question!Â
So the guy who started Reuters, Paul Reuter, invented finance reporting and reporting in general as know it. Reuters (the firm today) is also responsible for that politically motivated âbe objectiveâ nonsense.
Anyway, the reason Western reporters love objectivity is Reuters, which makes sense since he got his start reporting finance news in London (and thatâs âobjectiveâ âfactâ). He eventually became so wealthy he was able to force the Shah at the time to sell him all mines, forests, railroads and whatever industry gets built there (and if you try and bring that up today, you have a bias, ergo youâre not a good reporter, by reuterâs and our standards).
In journalism classes, this would be alluded to as him being an international entrepreneur, or worst I read was something like, âhe took the skills he learned reporting finance and applied them to his business practicesâ, which isnât a bias or perspective at all, and doesnât taint your reporting ability, since capitalism is natural and you wouldnât want to be unnatural, right?
lmao but yeah, look into paul reuter if youâre interested, but long story short: dude got rich writing about the bourgeoisieâs colonial exploits until he too almost became a colonial power in his own right
