Does Reuters do this on purpose to be funny?

Originally posted by Palynka
I believe you, but I don't think I understand what you mean about the article... which is probably where the misunderstanding started.

I thought that putting "made an emotional public appeal on Thursday for people to believe her story as her lawyer threatened a civil lawsuit" in the same clause made it seems as though Reuters was setting the story up to make it look like she was a gold digger... but perception is everything I suppose.