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Reuters and BBC respond to SIS criticism:<\/strong> \u201cWe take seriously our obligation to report the news fairly and accurately, and were careful here to report both the Interior Ministry\u2019s account of the situation as well as information we received independently from other sources,\u201d a Reuters spokesperson said<\/a>, commenting on the State Information Service\u2019s protest of the newswire\u2019s coverage of the Wahat terrorist attack. SIS accused Reuters and the BBC of \u201cinaccurate coverage\u201d and said they had made \u201cgrave professional mistakes\u201d by relying on unidentified security sources. The argument centers around Reuters relying on \u201cthree security sources\u201d telling it as many as 52 members of the police service were killed in the attack, when the official narrative is that the death toll is 16. The BBC<\/a> \u201cwas told that 53 officers and conscripts had been killed.\u201d SIS further challenged the two news agencies by submitting requests to both Reuters and BBC offices in Cairo to produce the names of those killed as proof that the casualty figures they reported are correct, according to Al Shorouk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters and BBC respond to SIS criticism: \u201cWe take seriously our obligation to report the news fairly and accurately, and were careful here to report both the Interior Ministry\u2019s account of the situation as well as information we received independently from other sources,\u201d a Reuters spokesperson said, commenting on the State Information Service\u2019s protest of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-639274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"67bf6e49-dbe7-4293-afa7-964d711559be","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"799248b1-2ce7-43b9-b728-ad65be18f447","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[639261],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nReuters says it was careful in reporting Wahat attack - 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