AP Suggests Political Motive Behind Preparations for Rita’s Arrival
In a possible foreshadowing of what we can expect in the next few days, the Associated Press suggested that there is a political motive behind the massive mobilization occuring in Texas ahead of the imminent arrival of Hurricane Rita:“Eager to avoid the public pounding he got for his response to Hurricane Katrina, President Bush pledged on Wednesday to be "ready for the worst" as another big…
AP Misrepresenting Dishonest Poll Results
The AP is constructing bad news for the President (Katrina Adds to Public Doubts About Bush). Again. And to do it, they're using a skewed sample poll, and then misrepresenting what it says. The latest AP-Ipsos poll is what they're reporting on. Once again, they've got a sample of adults, and it is signficantly skewed, with 49 percent Democrats and 41 percent Republicans. And they use that skewed…
AP Has NO Problem Finding People Who Didn't Like President's Speech
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
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
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
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
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…
