Obama, EPA Unmentioned In AP Stories on Largest Coal Co.'s Bankruptcy

Tom Blumer
April 14th, 2016 1:45 PM
Just three months after Arch, the nation's Number 2 coal mining company, filed for bankruptcy, Number 1, Peabody Energy, has followed suit. Five of the industry's largest firms have now gone bankrupt in the past 12 months. Two Associated Press stories on Peabody this week managed to avoid mentioning the name of President Barack Obama, whose hostility toward the industry has been obvious since…
 

Petition Against Cheney With Only 150 Signatures in a Year Draws AP C

Mitchell Blatt
September 9th, 2009 6:07 PM
Ill will against former Vice President Dick Cheney still runs high in some circles. So high, in fact, that when the University of Wyoming decided to name an international student center after him, Suzanne Pelican began circulating a petition against it last year. One year later, that petition has earned 150 signatures and an Associated Press story. In a story titled “Protest brews over…