Reuters staffers are pissed - pissed! - after a critical memo from global managing editor David Schlesinger was circulated far wider than he had hoped. The memo said the news company has "terrible quality problems," which naturally insulted the thousands who work for the second-rate wire service.

And how does the bureaucracy deal with such a scandal? By calling a meeting and passing motions, duh!

A meeting yesterday of the National Union of Journalists passed a motion highly critical of David Schlesinger.

The motion, passed almost unanimously, said: "This chapel believes that the note written by David Schlesinger … makes his position as global managing editor untenable. It's particularly offensive for him to denigrate his staff at a time when Reuters journalists are risking their lives in many countries to provide outstanding coverage."

Agreed, but with only MSNBC considering your news content trustworthy enough to rely on (everyone else are mostly AP diehards) might mean Schlesinger has a point. You know, we're just sayin'. (And for the last time, people, it's "roy-TERS." Yey-zeus.)