Reuters anti-american? Nahhhh...
I know I'm not the first to stumble across this today, but this has got to be the most blatant example of Al-Reuters-speak I've seen yet.
Google the results for "1890 Netherlands" and I bet you'll come up with something more suited. "Born the same year as the death of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh" perhaps?
UPDATE: Opinion Journal was thinking along the same lines as they point out that "The swipe at America seems especially gratuitous given that 1890 actually was a big year in the history of the Netherlands: the year Queen Wilhelmina, age 10, ascended to the Dutch throne."
"AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch woman who swears by a daily helping of herring for a healthy life celebrated her 115th birthday on Wednesday as the oldest living person on record.Huh? Is that the most germaine factoid that they can gin up for a story on a Dutch centagenarian?
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, a former needlework teacher, was born in 1890, the year Sioux Indians were massacred by the U.S. military at the Battle of Wounded Knee."
Google the results for "1890 Netherlands" and I bet you'll come up with something more suited. "Born the same year as the death of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh" perhaps?
UPDATE: Opinion Journal was thinking along the same lines as they point out that "The swipe at America seems especially gratuitous given that 1890 actually was a big year in the history of the Netherlands: the year Queen Wilhelmina, age 10, ascended to the Dutch throne."