Reuters in DR election blooper

[Rocky]

I would have settled for a Reuters mug or baseball cap. Or an editing job.

Good eye Chiri, and kudos to El Tigre for getting it resolved at lightning fast speed.

 

[Lambada]

Or an editing job.

If you'd been editing, the error wouldn't have been there in the first place. :cheeky: Can Reuters hear us, do you think?

 

[A.Hidalgo]

Nicely done Lambada, Chiri and the tiger......Reuters did listen. Now where are the free pens.

 

[Keith R]

Jeez, took Reuters long enough!

 

[El Tigre]

Jeez, took Reuters long enough!

Tell me about it!!! This should have been an easy fix/change.

 

[Chirimoya]

Well spotted, El Cacique Tao!

That of course should read "In 2000, his PLD party under Danilo Medina lost to Hipolito Mejia of the PRD" - it has been reported to TPTB.

Welcome to DR1.

 

[mariel]

How should one translate the name of the party correctly then?

Dominican Revolutionary Party

 

[Chirimoya]

How should one translate the name of the party correctly then?

It wasn't the translation that was incorrect, it was that they put the wrong party. Leonel is the candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party (Partido de la Liberaci?n Dominicana, PLD).

 

[mariel]

Oh I see. Sorry about that then

 

[Chirimoya]

DR1's own blooper was corrected overnight. The item now reads:

Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana (PLD): President Leonel Fernandez, a lawyer, was elected in 2004 with 57% of the vote, the highest percentage vote count in the past 12 elections, since 1962. The runner up, the PRD, received 33.65% and the PRSC received 8.65%. The first time he ran for office was when he was picked by the late PLD founder, Juan Bosch to be his candidate for vice president. In 1996 he won in a second round, with the support of Joaquin Balaguer of the PRSC, versus the PRD. In 2004, he returned to power on the tail of the worst banking and economic crisis to affect the DR.

 

[A.Hidalgo]

And the winner is DR1, beating out Reuters by 48 hours....:cheeky: