AP's 'Experts' Baffled by North Korea's Mistreatment of Otto Warmbier

Tom Blumer
June 20th, 2017 3:46 PM
Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old student from Wyoming, Ohio and the University of Virginia who was returned to his family in a coma last week after being imprisoned in North Korea for over a year, died on Monday. Tuesday morning, the Associated Press and "experts" it consulted somehow found the communist nation's treatment of Warmbier "one of the more perplexing and heart-rending developments in…
 

AP Concocts 'GOPers Going to Hillary' Meme in Ohio — Based on One Guy

Tom Blumer
October 28th, 2016 3:36 PM
Thursday, Dan Sewell at the Associated Press worked hard to create something out of almost nothing in Southwestern Ohio, where I happen to live. Sewell's work oddly appeared only as a very short squib with no follow-up at the wire service's main national site, while the AP published his full story at its "Big Story" site. The theme: "Hillary Clinton campaign's hopes are rising" in the Buckeye…
 

AP Holds Car Satisfaction Poll for Over 40 Days, Shabbily Covers Ford

Tom Blumer
April 22nd, 2010 2:02 PM
GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, working for its project partner the Associated Press, conducted a poll from March 3-8 about Americans' car preferences and perceptions. The poll's results were released earlier this week, and the wire service's Dan Sewell reported on the results yesterday. Why the 40-day delay? I'll suggest the possibility that the poll was timed in hopes that the detailed…