AP Has NO Problem Finding People Who Didn't Like President's Speech
September 17th, 2005 10:17 AM
As reported here yesterday by the Media Research Center’s Brent Baker, Dean Reynolds of ABC News had a hard time Thursday evening finding people who didn’t like President Bush’s address to the nation concerning Hurricane Katrina. Oddly, the Associated Press’s Angie Wagner didn’t have such difficulties. Of course, the AP went to seven different states to ensure they got the answers they were were…
AP Corrected Mistake on Bush Responsibility Claim, CBS Didn’t
September 15th, 2005 7:03 AM
Following President Bush's Tuesday news conference in which he took responsibility for federal mistakes following the Hurricane Katrina disaster, some news organizations left out the word federal in their reportage, creating the possible impression that Bush had shouldered blame for state and local failures.National Review’s Stephen Spruiell noticed this later in the day when he spotted a CBSNews…
AP Turns Better Than Expected Economic News Into a Calamity
September 13th, 2005 6:10 PM
Some good economic news was released by the Labor Department today. However, if you rely on the AP as your source for such things, you’d never know it:“Surging costs for gasoline and other energy products fueled inflation at the wholesale level in August, pressure that is expected to become even more intense once the full impact of Hurricane Katrina is felt.“The Labor Department said its…
AP Still Finds a Way to Criticize Bush
September 8th, 2005 7:14 AM
A couple of weeks ago, I addressed a piece from the AP's Jennifer Loven. Loven, the wife of a former Clinton administration environmental official, found it necessary to write, as gasoline prices were rising, about how George W. Bush was probably the greatest consumer of gasoline. Well, after almost two weeks of absolutely relentless criticism of the President for not taking Katrina seriously,…
Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies, AP Foreshadows Change in Roberts Hearing
September 4th, 2005 12:29 AM
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died late Saturday evening. As reported by Gina Holland of AP: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening of cancer, ending a remarkable 33-year tenure on the Supreme Court and creating a rare second vacancy on the nation's highest court.Rehnquist, 80, was surrounded by his three children when he died at his home in suburban Arlington.Sadly, the…
