Hello! AP is not your maker! Stop treating them with any respect or credibility!

FrenchieCat

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:41 PM
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Hello! AP is not your maker! Stop treating them with any respect or credibility!

They work for the otherside, and have the biggest microphone there is.

Don't forget that!

AP Bureau Chief's Objectivity at Issue
http://www.mije.org/richardprince/ap-bureau-chiefs-objectivity-issue

Associated Press to Internet: Drop Dead
http://www.contentmatters.info/content_matters/2009/04/associated-press-to-internet-drop-dead.html

AP falsehood: Obama health plan "would add around $1 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years"
http://mediamatters.org/research/200908030002

Media Matters details the Associated Press' and John Solomon's partisan yellow journalism

(And let's not forget AP's John Solomon also wrote fabrications about Ambassador Joe Wilson as well - claiming Wilson said his wife Valerie Plame wasn't undercover when she outed. Wilson said nothing of the kind, yet the TV networks picked up AP's false story and ran with it, doing significant damage to Wilson and his wife. Yet again, John Solomon's sloppy inaccurate reporting ends up hurting Democrats. Gee, what an ongoing coincidence.)
http://www.americablog.com/2006/06/media-matters-details-associated-press.html

AP reported that Gore "bragged" he read energy bill, but he was asked if he had done so
http://www.mixx.com/stories/4955869/media_matters_ap_reported_that_gore_bragged_he_read_energy_bill_but_he_was_asked_if_he_had_done_so

Colorado "AP Daybook" schedule repeated GOP talking point that DNC left flags behind at Invesco Field, but not Democrats' debunking of it
http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200809120001

UPDATED: AP's Pickler falsely asserted Bill Clinton "said Obama's candidacy was a 'fairy tale' "
http://mediamatters.org/research/200806240003

Associated Press, NPR, CNN Repeat False Claim that 'Nuclear Option' is a Democratic Term
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200505/ai_n21851212/

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donco6

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:43 PM
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1. On this, we agree.

When I see "AP", I read with a very critical eye.

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Hugin

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:48 PM
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4. Yep, and alas, it's the biggest of the big whirlitzers.

Oh, my! :o

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FrenchieCat

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:46 PM
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2. AP Journalists posing as trolls here at DU have unrec'ed this thread.....

Well, whatdayaknow! :rofl:

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Hugin

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:49 PM
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8. I fixed it Frenchie...

;)

It was broke. :shrug:

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HopeOverFear

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:47 PM
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3. Having hope is hard, Frenchie. It's easier to just believe the worst

that way you won't be surprised when it doesn't work out.

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FrenchieCat

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:49 PM
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5. I'm sure.....

But the AP has no business doing what they do...twisting some vague words into a specific meaning and calling it a fact. I'm tired of this.

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Cha

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Sun Aug-16-09 10:49 PM
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6. duers who are posting their misleading misinformation are

busy little water carriers for AP.

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Political Tiger

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Sun Aug-16-09 11:40 PM
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9. Thank you for the much needed dose of common sense! n/t

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