Adam Schreck

‘Ask AP’ Writer Fails to Note Quick Retail Response to Oil-Price Drop

By Tom Blumer | July 24, 2008 - 23:10

AskAP071808.jpg"Ask AP" is "a weekly Q&A column where Associated Press journalists respond to readers' questions about the news."

Not surprisingly, given the deteriorating quality of their reporting, the journalists questioned sometimes give less than perfect responses.

One such example came last Friday from Adam Schreck, AP's Energy Writer, at the end of a week when oil prices had already plummeted over 10% from their peak.

Reader Joseph Patterson from St. Louis asked Schreck this question: