Many US Cities Have Had Murder Rates Higher Than Iraq's 2006 'Violent

Tom Blumer
January 3rd, 2007 11:10 AM
The Associated Press released an interesting set of statistics (host link stored for future ref) a couple of days ago that I would suppose were designed to suck away any optimism any fools who still support the mission in Iraq might have (bolds are mine):BAGHDAD, Iraq - Government officials on Monday reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure…
 

Editor & Publisher: Disgraced Eason Jordan Attacks AP Over 6 Burning I

Warner Todd Huston
January 3rd, 2007 2:18 AM
 

Eason Jordan Calls Out AP on Jamil Hussein

Tom Blumer
January 2nd, 2007 3:25 PM
 

AP Uses Ramsey Clark Shills in Execution Protest Article

Robin Boyd
January 1st, 2007 10:11 AM
 

Saddam the Merciless Executed: AP Misusing Words to Report It

Warner Todd Huston
December 30th, 2006 6:24 AM
 

The AP Stretches To Find Honorable Link To Saddam Hussein

Terry Trippany
December 30th, 2006 12:52 AM
 

Investors Business Daily Weighs in on Jamil Hussein

Tom Blumer
December 29th, 2006 12:26 AM
The last paragraph of their Wednesday editorial (my bold) makes the point that the wire service, its defenders, and those who want to see the whole to-do as being about "just one incident," won't see, or won't admit to seeing:What is clear about all this is that nothing is clear. Maybe there's a Jamil Hussein with the Iraqi police, but he's a sergeant, not a captain. Maybe there's a police…
 

AP: Turning Gov't Letter Into Excuse for America Bashing

Warner Todd Huston
December 28th, 2006 10:23 PM
 

Pity the Fool at Ford

Dan Gainor
December 28th, 2006 3:38 PM
 

So Which Is It, AP? (On Iran and Nukes

Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2006 11:03 AM
On December 24, in a unbylined report on the reaction of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (you know, Time' Magazine's "Champion of the dispossessed") to United Nations sanctions, The Associated Press told us:Ahmadinejad: U.N. Will Regret Move..... On Saturday, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international…
 

AP Reporters: Painters of Fiction

Greg Sheffield
December 22nd, 2006 1:33 PM
Michelle Malkin notes that there are now five groups that have been "unable to confirm the existence of a Captain Jamil Hussein at Yarmouk." Besides her, the "other four are CPATT, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI), Marc Danzinger's team, and Eason Jordan's team."Possible candidates for "Captain Jamil Hussein": Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim, Jamil Ghdaab Ghulaim, or indeed…
 

Despite Further Investigation, AP's 'Body Burning' Source Still a Myst

Greg Sheffield
December 22nd, 2006 1:13 PM
 

Undisclosed Information about New Antiwar Folk Hero's 'Character Witne

Tom Blumer
December 19th, 2006 4:14 PM
Yet Another Poser (Mostly) Gets Through the Media 'Filter' ___________________________ Yesterday, in his story about Rosemarie Jackowski, the "new folk hero" of the antiwar movement, John Curran of the Associated Press quoted a gentlemen who was arrested with Jackowski in a 2003 protest incident in Vermont: She's not a loony toon by any means," said Andrew Schoerke, 73, a retired U.S. Navy…
 

Why Has AP Revised November 28 'Burning Six' Story

Al Brown
December 19th, 2006 3:42 PM
Curt at Flopping Aces notes that the Associated Press has quietly changed the copy of their November 28 response to questions about the "burning six" story. And the Google cached version apparently has been changed, as well. The AP angrily rejected criticism of its story about six Sunni men being dragged from prayer and burned alive after CENTCOM, the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, and bloggers…