Reuters Finally Almost Admits That 6 Million Were Killed

On Thursday, The Best Of The Web carried the following, with no additional comment:

Reuters Not So Sure?
"Historians say six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust."--Reuters, Dec. 8

The story that comes up is the below, where you can see the the quoted line at the bottom of the screen shot:



Friday's edition of The Best Of The Web follows up on the Thursday story and carried an update:

A later version of the dispatch, however, deleted the words "Historians say" and presented the Holocaust as fact: "The Nazis killed some 6 million Jews during their 1933-1945 rule."

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But today, Reuters has a new formulation:

Historians say six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust. Regarding this widely-accepted view, Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency IRNA . . .

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It must be awfully tough being politically correct. According to dictionary.com, "politically correct" means:

1. Of, relating to, or supporting broad social, political, and educational change, especially to redress historical injustices in matters such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
   
   
2. Being or perceived as being overconcerned with such change, often to the exclusion of other matters.

Apparently even defining "politically correct" has to be politically correct.

But what injustice does Reuters think it is going to redress by turning a historical fact into a matter of 'scholarly' opinion?

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