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"Say no to AP's shoddy work
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One by one they're being called on lies, bias, misrepresentations and agenda regurgitated as news. All the hidden stuff is bubbling to the surface.
Is there a newspaper columnist who has cast an eye on the AP and the case of Iraqi police captain Jamil Hussein? Today in his Boston Herald column, Jules Crittenden steps forward; "Say no to AP's shoddy work." Jules writes:
The oblivion has reached epidemic proportions. Some kind of congratulations are in order to Crittenden, who in this column plays the role of the little boy in the story of the naked emperor."The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016102.php
"Say no to AP's shoddy work
By Jules Crittenden
Boston Herald City Editor
(excerpt)
Sunday, December 3, 2006 - Updated: 02:46 AM EST
When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.
That's when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. That's when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete.
The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP.
Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge. He thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.
It has to do with the AP's Iraqi stringers and an oft-quoted Iraqi police captain named Jamil Hussein. Problem is, the Iraqi police say Capt. Hussein does not exist. The Iraqi police and U.S. military say an incident described in an AP report - Iraqi soldiers standing by as people were burned alive in a mosque - didn't happen. Another AP-reported incident, U.S. soldiers shooting 11 civilians, also never happened, the military says.
When the AP was forced to acknowledge this situation, it did so in a story about a new Interior Ministry policy regarding false reports. The AP buried the fact that its own false report prompted this new policy. "......................
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=170263
Comments
Those that read the wrong reports in most cases do not get the correct info.
The news media should be reporting factual info only that can be backed up as fact.
It is bad when only a few in this country have brain washed many.
Wonder if the viewing audience has been programmed with subliminals???
And, beautiful people can't tell lies, can they????????
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