AP: Egypt's Government Calling Muslim Brotherhood 'Terrorists' Is a 'D

Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2013 8:32 AM
It seems that Associated Press reporter Maggie Michael and Sarah El Deeb, her partner in distortion, can hardly believe that Egypt's military-backed government is calling terrorists "terrorists." The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. Even if one believes, as Michael asserts, that "The Brotherhood, founded in 1928, denounced violence in the late 1970s," that alleged repudiation…
 

Several News Outlets Report 'Millions' at Egypt Protests; AP Almost Bu

Tom Blumer
July 1st, 2013 12:23 AM
The BBC is reporting from Egypt that "Millions of protesters across the country accuse the country's first Islamist president of failing to tackle economic and security problems since taking power a year ago." Reuters is also reporting "millions" of participants. At the Associated Press as of 11:15 p.m., its "Big Story" home page (saved here for future reference) had three stories on Egypt.…
 

Bland AP Headline Downplays Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt; Muslim B

Tom Blumer
October 11th, 2011 11:14 AM
Only at the self-described "Essential Global News Network" could the Sunday deaths in Egypt of 26 people, mostly Coptic Christians, be kept out of a story's headline and their mention deferred until the third paragraph. But that's what readers will see in the four-paragraph grab which follows from a much longer item by the Associated Press's Maggie Michael yesterday: