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News Service Blogs Its Mistakes

News Service Blogs Its Mistakes

By Piers Fawkes on March 13, 2007

Quite amusing and a little bit charming: the Reuters blog tells us when they get their facts wrong. Here’s a reader’s email they published with their response:

READER: I just watched your video about the “Chavez-Bush: a tale of two leaders” where Reuters informs that Sao Paulo is the capital of Brazil. Please note that the capital of Brazil is Brasilia and not Sao Paulo.

REUTERS BLOG: Yikes, that is embarrassing. We took the piece down: GBU Editor

The capital of Brazil is… – Reuters Blogs

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