What's News, AP?

By Dan Riehl (Bio | Archive)
February 19, 2007 - 15:24 ET

Amazing. The AP puts everything over the wire ... well, almost everythng.

Realizing we don't yet know all the details, apparently the AP has decided to not put the story of a Muslim cab driver running down two students after a religious dispute over the wire. Why might that be? They can't all be writing about Anna Nicole Smith?


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Just like they buried the fac

February 19, 2007 - 15:56 ET by kathleenirish

Just like they buried the fact that the Utah shooter was a Bosnian Muslim immigrant.  That story would have gone on forever if they shooter, was, say, a self-proclaimed "White supremacist" or maybe, a self-proclaimed "government-hater" or part of some movement the MSM has an axe to grind with.  Shaping and massaging the news, ignoring what they don't like, that's the MSM's creed.

   Oh, and promoting anything that bashes George W. Bush and the United States.  Hopefully, both at the same time.

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere"          -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph

Hell, the MSM will even make

February 19, 2007 - 16:06 ET by gfrrman

Hell, the MSM will even make things up out of whole cloth if it can somehow be used to bash Bush!!! ......."fake, but accurate".......

And they will always run &quo

February 19, 2007 - 16:09 ET by Uphill

And they will always run "SUV kills four" on the front page but will never mention "4-door sedan kills four".

I believe that the reason may

February 19, 2007 - 17:10 ET by

I believe that the reason may be simple old school-house bullying by those in leadership of the main-stream-media.

Back in our school days, there were always the leaders who bullied others into submission to that which they or their friends liked or disliked.

It appears to me, that the main-stream-media does not like to address topics of certain faith-beliefs, which the bullies in their circle demand they stay away from.

Sometimes it is like watching them hold in a burp. I can see that they would really like to shout out with something, but that they are holding back, for fear that they may be removed from where they are if they speak out. (I have often seen this with the young blonde gal on The View.)

*un-bias, let it begin with me.

"Apparently the AP has d

February 19, 2007 - 17:31 ET by midnight cowboy

"Apparently the AP has decided not to put the story of a Muslim cab driver running down two students after a religious dispute over the wire"

Maybe the first name of the AP's CEO is Mohammed. As with Reuters, Gannet, and Knight Ridder.