Monday, August 17, 2009
The Media - the Associated Press
Articles by the Associated Press find their way into every local newspaper in the country.
Some, including this writer (and me), think they are NOT trustworthy...
Some, including this writer (and me), think they are NOT trustworthy...
At NorthStarWriters.com, Dan Calabrese summarizes:
"The bottom line is that the AP is nothing more than a propaganda service for its own political biases. It lies. You can’t trust anything the AP says, especially when they run one of their “analysis” or “AP Impact” pieces, and especially when they run a story full of conjecture from anonymous sources. (Oh wait. That’s practically every AP story!)
But generally speaking, if the story carries an AP dateline, you will never go wrong refusing to believe a word of it"
