September 7th, 2004
The Columbia Journalism Review‘s Campaign Desk, a site I like quite a bit, has also neglected to mention the AP “no-boo” story.
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My slightly-too-exuberant-for-its-own-good review of Paul Murray’s nevertheless-fabulous An Evening of Long Goodbyes ran this weekend in the Washington Times. But boy can he write.
0 commentsSeptember 7th, 2004
You may be tired of AP, but an alert reader notes that while AP has fixed the story at Boston.com, the URL still reads:
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/247/region/Audience_boos_as_Bush_offers_bP.shtml
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September 7th, 2004
The Kerry problem in a nutshell is captured in the Washington Post’s online headlines: Third from the top, it says “Surgery Detours Campaign: Clinton hopes to resume an active political schedule by October.” Clinton? The guy whose phone call to Kerry was one of the bigger stories over the long weekend. Meanwhile the actual nominee of the Democratic party gets shoehorned in small type under “More Headlines”: “Kerry attacks president on Iraq.”
0 commentsSeptember 7th, 2004
Excellent video of a pack of nearly 100 sharks spotted in the Gulf, near the Alabama-Florida state line.
0 commentsSeptember 7th, 2004
If you haven’t gotten to it yet, this Mark Steyn column is a must-read. I’ll have more on it later.
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September 7th, 2004
President Clinton apparently made it through surgery like a champ. Good for him and his family.
The AP report says that blockage in several of Clinton’s arteries was “well over 90 percent.” That’s pretty scary, (if you believe the AP!), particularly since these days President Clinton looks better than ever. An excellent lesson for people over 50 to not avoid your physicals just because you’re in good shape.
Continued best wishes for the Clintons.
0 commentsWhat Story About the AP?
September 7th, 2004
While I was away over the weekend, the AP issued a retraction on their story about the Wisconsin Republicans booing George W. Bush’s well-wishes for Bill Clinton. It’s about time.
Still, the official retraction comes a bit late, and on the heels of a troubling attempt to whitewash the record. Also, with no explanation as to how the error was made, or which reporter made the mistake (remember, there were five reporters listed on the story), AP leaves itself open to charges of political bias so deep that it affects reporting and management decisions. I’d like to think better of America’s preeminent wire service–so why won’t they just come out and give a 500 word narrative of what happened?
Or, if the AP isn’t going to fess up by themselves, why are all the big media reporters silent? This morning Howie Kurtz has a piece on USA Today‘s decision to send Michael Moore to the Republican convention; Jim Romenesko lists two items–Kurtz’s piece and a Baltimore Sun story about the scandal of the free massages for journalists at last week’s convention (seriously, this is what Romenesko has up); Jack Shafer has nothing.
I’m not a professional media reporter, and maybe the AP’s error and subsequent attempted cover-up isn’t a blockbuster story like Jayson Blair, but is it beneath any mention?
Conservatives are (rightly) regarded as being paranoid whackos when it comes to worrying about bias in the mainstream media. But just because you’re paranoid . . .
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