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Misguided and wrong

A better covenant for Reuters management would be a pledge to support its journalists unequivocally. As others have said in these columns, Reuters ability to maintain its reputation for speed, impartiality and freedom from bias has been seriously undermined in recent years through budget cuts and misguided priorities.

 

Signing this UK Armed Forces Covenant is at best a misplaced and woolly exercise in corporate social responsibility. In reality, it has served only to undercut the credibility and independence of Reuters newsgathering which has been the bedrock of its commercial success for decades and which so clearly sets it apart from most other news operations.It would be a grave mistake not to rescind the covenant immediately. ■