Chivalry Still Alive: AP Gives Larry's But Not Laurie's Age in David D

June 6th, 2007 3:51 PM
Who would have thought that chivalry would still be alive at the liberal Associated Press? Yet in its story on the split between Larry and Laurie David, the venerable wire agency states the age, 59, of the creator of Seinfeld, but not that of his activist wife, producer of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth."Isn't the feminist AP the home of strong women, proud of every wrinkle? For the record,…

AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As 'Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qa

June 6th, 2007 2:20 PM
With no shortage of items documenting how the American media are liberally biased, it’s often easy to forget how the European media are so much more dominated by the hard left. In his cover story on the war in Afghanistan in the June 11 Weekly Standard, Michael Fumento recounted his experience embedded with the U.S. military at Forward Operating Base Lagman in the Zabul province of Afghanistan.…

AP Works Hard to Find the Negative in Yesterday's ISM Non-Manufacturin

June 6th, 2007 6:32 AM
The Associated Press, in an unbylined article, had this to say about yesterday's Institute for Supply Management Non-Manufacturing Report (see first bullet below regarding the bolded words): U.S. Service Sector Expands Tuesday June 5, 11:20 AM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's service sector expanded at a faster-than-expected pace in May, suggesting it could help sustain broader economic growth…

AP Stylebook: 'Let Relevance Be Guide' on a Pol's Party Affiliation

June 5th, 2007 5:26 PM

AP Did Not Identify Indicted Congressman William Jefferson as a Democr

June 5th, 2007 7:10 AM
Update I & II at bottom:In this June 4 article, the AP worked hard to leave out something very important but very basic in an article about Democratic US Representative William Jefferson’s 16-count bribery indictment. What the AP left out was any identification of Jefferson’s party affiliation. In almost 30 paragraphs, no where is there any hint of what party Jefferson belongs to, not even a…

AP Ignored NYT Bestselling Author, Focused on Host Stephen Colbert at

June 4th, 2007 10:45 PM

AP: Foiled JFK Terror Plot Isn't Chilling, It's 'Chilling

June 4th, 2007 3:26 PM
A plot to blow up a major airport and with it a huge fuel pipeline running under densely-populated residential neighborhoods is, safe to say, an objectively devastating and horrific prospect were it executed to fruition. So why the editorial version of air quotes in this June 2 AP story (h/t DailyGut.com) for the word "chilling"?:NEW YORK - Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken…

Associated Press Accidentally Extols Benefits of Global Warming

June 4th, 2007 2:55 PM
Think global warming is a bad thing? Well, not according to Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press.In an article published Saturday entitled “Blame Coal: Texas Leads Carbon Emissions” (h/t NBer dscott), the AP writer, whilst trying to point fingers at certain states for being bigger polluters than others, accidentally suggested that global warming might actually be a good thing.Don’t believe me…

AP Story on Vt. Secession Movement Ignores Conspiracy Kooks, Liberalis

June 4th, 2007 1:12 PM
In April, NewsBusters contributor Dan Gainor criticized how the Washington Post puffed up a liberal secessionist movement in the state of Vermont. You know, the state that now has two very liberal independent senators, socialist professor Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy (D), and previously gave the nation RINO-turned-independent Jim Jeffords. Well, now the Associated Press is running with the…

Media Ignored Criticisms of Socialized Medicine in Story of Quarantine

June 3rd, 2007 8:23 PM
The media was fascinated with the story of the Americans in Michael Moore's "Sicko," who left the US for medical treatment in Cuba, a country with socialized medicine, and it was used to highlight the failings of the US health care system. When the exact opposite occurred, and an American fled Italy's socialized medicine for medical treatment in the privatized care of the US, the media decded…

JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrest

June 2nd, 2007 2:30 PM
Anybody that has been watching television or listening to the radio today is aware that a major terrorist plot to blow up JFK airport in New York has been thwarted.*****Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this story.*****Update II: LGF identifies Netroots' silence on this event.*****Update III: Read entire DOJ press release here. As reported by the Associated Press:Three people were arrested and…

AP: Wal-Mart Firing Cashier for Insulting Shoppers Is Newsworthy

May 31st, 2007 3:27 PM
It's generally bad for business to have a flippant employee who insults your loyal customers. Now if someone could just give that newsflash to the Associated Press. The AP today picked up on the plight of one David Noordeweir, who was fired in late February from a Michigan Wal-Mart for an entry on his MySpace page that insulted the intelligence of Wal-Mart shoppers. Here's the lede.:A former Wal…

The Search for the Housing Bubble Hits a Snag in the Latest OFHEO Repo

May 31st, 2007 12:16 PM
Update: SEE Editor's Note at bottom of post for related MRC content.1Q07 Home Prices Up 0.5%, 4.3% Over 12 Months AgoThose looking for a pervasive and severe nationwide decline in home prices are going to have to keep looking. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) just released its House Price Index (PDF) for the first quarter of 2007. This most comprehensive of home-price…

AP's Jennifer Loven: Reporter or Editorialist

May 31st, 2007 5:14 AM