Wallace White at the Daily Caller reported it isn't just Politico that's a substantial beneficiary of federal government support. The Associated Press -- which in recent years has offered a seriously soft touch to President Biden -- receives many millions from taxpayers.
The AP, and its associated “child recipient” Press Association, Inc., have received one of the larger investments from the government, topping over $50 million in total awards for various services, according to spending data.
The AP received a $19,502,333 contract from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (AGM), stretching from 2017 to 2022, according to spending records. Additionally, the AGM is slated to dish out at least $5 million by 2027 to have “enterprise-wide access to the wire services including text, video, photo and images.”
The AGM isn't paying for subscriptions like Politico relies on. Overseeing a series of global news outlets, they're actually publishing the content of AP news stories around the world, much as PBS.org does in America. The problem? AP doesn't offer objective, fact-based news any more, despite their outdated "just the facts" image. The U.S. government is subsidizing and spreading pro-Democrat propaganda.
White reported the State Department also handed out over $400,000 to the AP from 2019 to 2024 to aid the outlet’s overseas expansion in the Pacific, with countries like Laos, Timor-Leste and other “Pacific island nations or territories” considered, according to spending records.
AP lamely insisted they are "nonpartisan," and it's better for them if you don't read them and figure out they're dreadfully wrong about that.
The AP told CNN in a statement Wednesday that the government has “long been an AP customer — through both Democratic and Republican administrations.”
“It licenses AP’s nonpartisan journalism, just like thousands of news outlets and customers around the world,” the AP told CNN. “It’s quite common for governments to have contracts with news organizations for their content.”
Let's review some examples we've published at NewsBusters that suggest it's a bad idea that AGM has been spreading AP's leftist coverage around the globe.
-- Last July, shortly before Biden was pushed out of the race for Kamala Harris, AP political reporter Jill Colvin uncorked this partisan rant disguised as a news story:
NEW YORK (AP) — For years it’s been a Republican scare tactic.
A vote to reelect President Joe Biden, the GOP often charges, is really a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s an attack line sometimes tinged with racist and misogynist undertones and often macabre imagery.
-- Last September, AP reporter Darlene Superville uncorked a "make people like Kamala" article headlined "Harris turns to her favorite foods in effort to show a more private side and connect with voters." The subheadlines in this puff piece include "Caramel is a favorite," "Beautiful music," "Collard greens in the tub," "Doritos as a go-to snack" and -- kid you not -- "Golden Arches."
Superville is the same soft touch for Democrats who co-authored a whole book with AP's Julie Pace gushing over the "private side" of First Lady Jill Biden, touted by the liberals at Kirkus Reviews as "A fond portrait of a woman anyone would want as a friend."
-- Joseph Simonson at the Washington Free Beacon reported the Associated Press Stylebook czars are telling their reporters "The terms terrorism and terrorist have become politicized, and often are applied inconsistently. Because they can be used to label such a wide range of actions and events, and because the debate around them is so intense, detailing what happened is more precise and better serves audiences."
-- Their motto is "Advancing the Power of Facts," but some facts are too painful. AP's word police also argue it's "precise" to blur the gender binary: "A person’s sex and gender are usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants and can turn out to be inaccurate. Experts say gender is a spectrum, not a binary structure consisting of only men and women, that can vary among societies and can change over time."
-- AP's "Fact Check" embraced the usual "nonpartisan" vibe by attacking Donald Trump's talk of post-birth abortions. AP tweeted: "The reality behind President Trump's false accusation that abortion doctors execute babies."
