Reuters suspended an unidentified employee for sending a death threat to Little Green Footballs blogger Charles Johnson. YNet News explains:
The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read: “I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut.”
Reporting the message to his readers, Johnson wrote on his website: “This particular death threat is a bit different from the run of the mill hate mail we get around here, because an IP lookup on the sender reveals that he/she/it was using an account at none other than Reuters News.”
Speaking to Ynetnews, Johnson said: “I was surprised to receive a threat from a Reuters IP, but only because it was so careless of this person to use a traceable work account to do it.”
Ed Williams, a Reuters spokesman, told Johnson that the employee was suspended pending further investigation and is not part of the wire service’s news division. See here for how Johnson traced the comments to Reuters and why Inayat Bunglawala, Media Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain is linked to the controversy.
