Four AP Reporters Make Excuses, All Unacceptable, for Weak March Jobs
April 6th, 2013 11:30 PM
After telling the world on Thursday that "Gone are the fears that the economy could fall into another recession," it seems that the Associated Press's Christopher Rugaber needed some help explaining away Friday's weak jobs report from the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The AP had four reporters on Friday evening's coverage, all seemingly in search of a viable excuse for another "…
AP's Rugaber: 'Gone Are the Fears That the Economy Could Fall Into Ano
April 4th, 2013 10:20 PM
Well, we can stop worrying about the economy now. Write it down. Chris Rugaber at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, tells readers today that the business cycle has been repealed. That's right. As of now, "Gone are the fears that the economy could fall into another recession."
Even giving him the benefit of the doubt that he only meant to refer to the short- or intermediate…
NB's Graham, FNC's Varney Discuss AP Scrubbing 'Illegal Immigrant' Fro
April 3rd, 2013 7:27 PM
"It seems to me" that the Associated Press's newly announced plan to scrub "illegal immigrant" from its Stylebook is "an attempt to control the language... it's a form of political correctness," argued substitute host Stuart Varney on the April 3 Your World with Neil Cavuto. "You can subtly affect your coverage and your thinking about the issue" by "softening the language," noted Varney, who…
Pro-Democrat Labeling: Fewer Illegal Immigrants, More 'Undocumented' O
April 3rd, 2013 2:33 PM
The New York Times's politically correct evolution on immigration issues continues apace. Public editor Margaret Sullivan blogged Tuesday afternoon on the paper reconsidering the use of term "illegal immigrant," in the wake of the Associated Press's announcement that it would cease using it.
The Associated Press made a bold move on Tuesday in dropping the term “illegal immigrant” from its…
Leno: AP Replaces 'Illegal Immigrant' With 'Undocumented Democrat
April 3rd, 2013 1:23 AM
The Associated Press announced Tuesday that it will no longer use the term “illegal immigrant.”
On NBC’s Tonight Show, host Jay Leno said, “They will now use the phrase ‘undocumented Democrat’” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
AP Fails to Tag Longtime Dem Arrested in Alleged NYC Mayor Election-Ri
April 2nd, 2013 10:22 AM
Here's a case of "name one party and not the other."
Though there is no question that arrests made this morning in connection with an alleged plot to rig the 2013 New York City mayor's include Republicans, and that they of course should be identified as such, there is also no question that the very first person named in the breaking Associated Press story which follows the jump is a Democrat…
AP Headline and Story Label OH-01 (GOP Congressman's 2012 Victory Marg
March 31st, 2013 9:54 PM
I guess we had better start paying closer attention to how the establishment press labels -- and mislabels -- congressional districts.
The headline at the Associated Press at a lengthy column composed by Charles Babington bemoaning the lack of willingness of Ohio First District Congressman Steve Chabot to "compromise," i.e., sell out his principles, reads as follows: "PARTISAN DISCORD FINDS…
AP Scrubs Inflammatory 'Captains of the Religious Right' Comment From
March 31st, 2013 9:03 PM
At the Weekly Standard's blog today, Daniel Halper relayed a pool reporter's notes from the Easter service President Barack Obama and his family attended this morning. The highlights from the Rev. Dr. Luis Leon's sermon" included the following statement: "It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in the back of the bus ...…
Kurtz: 32 Years Ago Today, Berkeley Students Cheered Upon Learning Rea
March 30th, 2013 10:11 PM
Two years ago today, I chronicled wire service reports which appeared shortly after John Hinckley's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 reporting that schoolchildren in many parts of the country cheered when they heard that he had been shot.
At the time, I suggested that school teachers and administrators who were appalled at the reactions might have…
Rasmussen Poll: 45% Say Sequestration 'Cuts' Weren't Deep Enough; That
March 30th, 2013 4:34 PM
At the Politico, Darren Samuelsohn reports that "The public has largely tuned out the Democrats’ repeated warnings about ... (what will happen) if the sequester cuts stay in place." He also notes in a separate report that Republicans "Republicans are winning the sequester wars," and that "even the White House admits there’s little chance of reversing all the cuts."
Of course, what's in…
As Warming 'Hiatus' Nears Two Decades, AP Reports Continue to Unskepti
March 30th, 2013 8:29 AM
A quick review of recent dispateches from the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, finds four items which unskeptically take claims of "global warming" at face value -- and that's just from Thursday and Friday.
Too bad for AP, and the public at large being brainwashed by the incessant repetition of what is proving to be patently false, that we're nearing the two-decade mark of…
AP and Reuters Whitewash Dijsselbloem Statement About Cypriot Account
March 29th, 2013 11:04 PM
So much for Cyprus being a "one-off."
On Wednesday, Bruno Waterfield at the UK Telegraph relayed that "Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch chairman of the eurozone, told the FT and Reuters that the heavy losses inflicted on depositors in Cyprus would be the template for future banking crises across Europe." That's "would," not "could." The Associated Press hasn't had the nerve to correctly…
AP's Maryclaire Dale: Gosnell 'An Elegant Man' Who 'Smiled Softly' in
March 27th, 2013 11:45 PM
A search at the Associated Press's national web site tonight at 11 p.m. ET on "Gosnell" returned one result: a very early Monday morning story by the wire service's Maryclaire Dale. This would indicate that the self-described Essential Global News Network hasn't carried a subsequent national report on the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Pennsylvania and Delaware abortionist accused of eight…
AP Attributes Ill Intent to Republicans Passing New Va. Voter ID Law
March 27th, 2013 1:20 PM
We've come to expect this sort of thing from MSNBC, but the Associated Press should be ashamed of itself. In a story about Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signing into law a new voter ID law requiring a photo ID to vote-- which may be provided free-of-charge to indigent Virginians, by the way -- the AP strongly suggested the bill is an attempt by Virginia Republicans to prevent a Democratic…