Not True: AP Claims Workforce Participation Rate 'Has Been Falling Ste

Tom Blumer
April 7th, 2013 11:20 AM
The disgraceful lengths to which writers in the establishment press will rewrite history to paper over the economy's awful performance during the past five years is perfectly illustrated in one paragraph found in an otherwise decent Associated Press "Big Story" report ("Dropouts: Discouraged Americans leave labor force") Saturday evening by Paul Wiseman and Jesse Washington, with help from…
 

AP Predictably Leaves Harvard's Violation of Federal Guidelines Out of

Tom Blumer
May 29th, 2012 12:05 AM
At the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, Jesse Washington's Friday evening coverage ("Who's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query") of the nuances involved in claiming Native American Indian heritage -- or ancestry, or biology, or allegiance, or identity, or identification, or membership (and I've probably missed a couple) -- occasioned by Democratic Senate candidate…
 

AP Report on Dearth of Black Degrees in Math and Science Missing Role

Tom Blumer
October 23rd, 2011 10:17 PM
At the Associated Press today, National Writer Jesse Washington attempted to dissect the relative dearth of college degrees earned by African-Americans in "STEM" (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Not that anything he reported was particularly wrong, but in my view he missed the largest contributor to the problem, one that apparently can't be mentioned in polite press company. He…