The Administration’s Press
The Guild thinks so little of even the perception of objectivity that it was “fully behind the radical message of Occupy Wall Street,” and hasn’t given any indication of modifying that support, despite the movement’s crimes, violence, sexual assaults, filth, and unreimbursed costs to taxpayers. Demonstrating that it has also been completely coopted in the 75 years since the Supreme Court decision just noted, management assigned seven reporters to cover the largely disbanded movement’s six-month anniversary; the resulting report still managed to avoid any reference to Occupy’s myriad documented offenses.
Just four of the many AP outrages against journalism in the past two weeks include the following:
- An AP reporter wrote that supporters of the Keystone pipeline “say it will create over 1,000 jobs.” Well, I guess “over a dozen” would also have been technically true. Supporters’ estimates actually range from 2,500 to 500,000, depending on whether they are referring to direct jobs or are also including gains from spin-off employment.
- When Congress unanimously rejected Obama’s farcical budget proposal, AP waited until the fifth paragraph of its report to tell readers that the vote was 414-0 (specifics almost guaranteed not to get mentioned over the airwaves), and would only describe it as “overwhelmingly rejected” by a “GOP-run Congress” in order “to embarrass Democrats.”
- In the first four days after the New Black Panthers issued a bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman in the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, AP reports cryptically noted the existence of a bounty just once, with no mention of its source.
- A truly bizarre and Orwellian sequence of AP dispatches over the course of one business day on the consumer confidence report from the Conference Board went from “falls” to “dips slightly” to “roughly flat” to (brace yourself) a “rosy outlook.” The index fell from 71.6 in February to 70.2 in March.
The AP cranks out a constant barrage of risible reportage to relatively disengaged voters. Thanks to news feeds on smart phones, tablets, and computers, the servings of half-truths and falsehoods are on average probably more frequent, and thus over time more damaging. Meanwhile, New Media’s center-right presence on consumer devices is lagging.
AP management also seems to no longer care about appearances. Outgoing CEO Dean Singleton’s introduction of President Obama at the wire service’s annual luncheon on April 3 was so disgracefully obsequious that, according to Charles Hurt at the Washington Times, “[I]t was more like he proposed to him.”
Team Obama’s reelection campaign could hardly be happier about all of this.
(Also read: NBC Fires Unnamed Producer Who Deceptively Edited the Zimmerman Tape)
Funny. *I’ve* only known them as American Pravda.
Izvestia nye Pravda, y Pravda nye Izvestia
Because it may be hard to define sometimes, but I know it when I see it, I have come to call the product of the AP and all the alphabet networks what it is:
“journography,” or simply “journo” for short.
Obviously the perpetrators are “Journo-listers”
Salacious, morally-corrupt, do-anything-that-demeans-good-people, truth, honesty and integrity.
In this high-tech Internet era that we now live in, I never understood why an alternative to the AP has not been created. It could probably be done cheaply since Internet communications make everything so fast and immediate. Perhaps this could be a new avenue for Fox News to go down, or for an organization created by Fox News? At least it would give people a shot at hearing some real news for a change, instead of that junk the AP calls news. I’ll bet if people knew it was out there, they would read it more than the AP, even if the far-left mainstream media doesn’t use it.
Liberty, with the help of Firefox NoScripts, which keeps my e-mail account free of yahoo news, a slavish drooling lackey to the AP, and the absence of pay-for-TV at my house, I almost never see anything put out by the AP, unless it’s commented on here or at other various conservative blogs.
Being the cynic that I am, I celebrate my freedom every day. I have satellite radio in the car and when I listen to music, it is commercial-free and also propaganda-free. I listen to Rush in the afternoon and tolerate the commercials that are interspersed with his show.
Much as I’m a fan of capitalism, I find commercials, both on TV and radio to be among the most annoying things ever created by human kind.
But as regards limiting my exposure to propaganda, I have been most fortunate and it doesn’t really take that much effort. When someone has left a USA Today on the table at work, it takes no effort from me to ignore it. I used to be tempted to pick it up but I haven’t done that in years.
I can easily get the conservative uptake on the news by coming here and to other blogs. I know it’s effective because it was with utter joy finding out that I was the only human being on the face of the earth ignorant of the passing of Davy Jones.
Not that his death is, in any way, humorous but that the conservative blogoshpere ignored it was verification of what we consider to be important. We generally won’t hear what some rapper is doing with their free time, why it’s important to have more “color” in our salad or why the left thinks that high gas prices are a good thing.
I learned many years ago that news reporting lacks all objectivity and instead wants to tell me how to think, which I find insulting. When I come to the conservative blogs, I already think in the manner that most writers have written and it’s just a confirmation. I also enjoy reading what like-minded people have to say.
A person once scolded me for listening to Rush in that, “So, you can’t think for yourself? You have to have him tell you what to think?” and they couldn’t have been farther from the truth. I simply replied, “Nope, he just verbalizes that which I’m already thinking.” And indeed, I’ll be thoughtfully listening and Rush will come out and say the thing I had just thought, the way I thought it.
And we’re greater in number than the left would have you believe. Much greater.
But what good are our numbers when we lack the means to overpower the left’s ability to brainwash the masses so that it would be possible for us to enlighten them? I figure it all boils down to the money (like most everything else that doesn’t make much sense).
Enlightenment is a voluntary action. That is, a person has to have the capacity to be convinced. You can lay out all the facts, the evidence, the details, explain it in various ways and if the other person is unwilling to acknowledge it, digest it and understand it, then yes, it’s a loss for our side.
AGW is the glowing example out of hundreds (thousands?) of examples out there.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see”.
So outright ignorance is also voluntary. But, it is fostered in our education system by teachers who work very hard to eliminate curiosity, inquisitiveness, the desire to know more than just what is taught in the classroom. Some kids are naturals at it and it cannot be stopped, providing the parents don’t discourage it.
Case in point: I have a friend in Texas who has a son. A few years ago he was having trouble in school. Teachers were frustrated with the lad as he seemed “uncooperative” and “rebellious”. My friend and his wife worked within the confines of the school structure but had an epiphany; They came to realize that their son was just fine intellectually and emotionally, but his conservative upbringing had run head-on into liberalism. He questioned his teachers absurd notions with basic-but-brilliant inquiries that deeply annoyed the teachers.
So, they looked for a good, private Christian school and in weeks, he was getting straight A’s, doing his assignments with great interest, excited about school, even. He is still in that school and is repeatedly on the honor-roll. His projects are both interesting and challenging and (as is the policy of the school) largely self-generated, with teacher approval.
They learn the truth about our nation’s system. There is not any liberal indoctrination. He is a kid who genuinely thinks outside-the-box and is given appropriate rein to do so but with adult supervision and guidance. He is the happiest, most well-adjusted eleven-year-old I’ve ever met…and can hold a conversation on a level most adults would have trouble with.
So, what passes for “education” in our screw-els is really indoctrination into the socialist mentality. But when that mentality runs headlong into a conflict of what happens at home, then obviously something isn’t right. Sadly, many homes these days are run by parents who think it’s essential to be “cool” so their kids don’t have to suffer the *gasp* utter humiliation of being seen with them…and so their kid’s friends won’t think they’re dorks.
Really, it’s gotten THAT BAD. Parents as friends? Wrong. Parent/guide/disciplinarian/rule-maker/coach/critic first. Friend….dead last. Parents today think that being a friend with their kids will make their kids better people but in reality, it’s the opposite that’s true. The parents fail to expect better of their kids and don’t scold or punish them because they fear their kid won’t like them. Oh god…noooooooo! Not that!
And so, we also have those same parents and adults in general who refuse to see logic, evidence, proof that liberalism sucks out loud and therefore I prefer not to try to “win them over”. Why? I simply live my life as I choose and don’t do drugs or party til I puke and live conservatively and treat people with respect unless I’m treated badly. I stand my ground, dismiss stupid ideas (if asked) and to hell with the rest. I have listened politely to liberal prevaricateurs, then shook my head and kept my opinion to myself.
They have voluntarily chosen to be close-minded. They have shut down their logic-seeking gene. They dismiss any substantive argument with any one of several dozen code words, “racist”, “hater”, etc. But these are words they learned in school and which fit a particular template. But when the template itself is found to be flimsy, they are left standing there, naked. This is frustrating to them because while other people were taught how to handle a logical argument and accept the inescapable, these types were not.
Call it mental laziness, indoctrination, what-have-you. Some DO change their minds. Some DO grow and get enough life-experience to realize that what they thought all these years is wrong. There are varying degrees of density in all things and so with the liberals. Some, though, just are so deeply encrusted with it that they are as stubborn as they say their WW II veteran father was.
The first thing about change is that a person has to WANT to change. It begins with them self-critiquing which has been removed from our education system. When I was in grade-school all through high-school, the military and college as well, self-critiquing was a core element. “Well, Mr___, how do you think that you did on that? And be honest. No false humility and no grandiose self-praise, either; Just a plain, direct evaluation, please.”
Kids nowadays are not given that bluntness. Not from their teachers, not from their parents…and the first time they hear it is usually from their employer, when they fail at something.
The penultimate example is, of course, Obama. Never told he was anything other than perfect. The evidence to the contrary means to him that the people accumulating the evidence are somehow wrong. You cannot change that. If he and I were shipwrecked on a south sea island, I would do like the character Tom Hanks did in “Castaway”. Obama would starve and die. The liberal outlook is a death sentence, the way I see it. When you’re dependent on others for your income, your happiness and your state of well being…they will ultimately fail you and you’re left with yourself.
When you count on yourself for the three things mentioned above, with minor excursions outside of that, you still have your “self-core” to believe in. It requires self-searching, honesty, character, and when you fail…that’s when self-reliance is all that much more important.
I’m sorry for the long expose’. But it’s not an easy question to answer unless I wanted to be glib. The simple statement “I have no interest in converting liberals to my way of thinking” begs for qualifiers. Though the statement is true, I figure I ought to explain why.
No need to apologize – I savoured every word. Beautifully written. Thank you for writing what I don’t have the talent to express.
P Jay;
You have an admirable style.
Get yourself an iPod, subscribe to Rush 24/7, and you can listen to unadulterated Rush on podcasts sans commercials.
It’s the best Rush you can get.
There is no “one” alternative to the AP but instead many.It’s called “The New Media.” PJM is a part of it as well(unless they keep running obam/biden pop ups–how desperate for money can they get!!)along with many other sites that value freedom of speech.The DBM is on its way out. Rush does not call the Associated Press AP Obama for nothing.
Here’s another example of AP’s blatant bias told directly by their obama worshiping head! Hard to imagine this happens in a supposedly fair and balanced org. Hardly!
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2012/04/03/ap-president-dean-singleton-slobbers-over-obama-gushing-speech
The AP also feeds stories to every local paper in the USA. Fox News Radio..almost every broadcast begins “President Obama ….”. It appears they are simply reading press releases from the BHO. The AP News on Sirius Radio is appalling.
Also AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Comcast, web pages are filled with edited propaganda.
Many who complain that the Romney Campaign spends too much on advertising should be aware that is the only way he can get his message out. The vast majority of newscasts are disparaging about him.
In 1996 the Labor Unions spent $145 million trashing Gingrich and the TV Media aired 493 minutes negative and only 3 positive in their coverage.
Please remember Murdoch isn’t conservative, he just found a niche in the USA market which he is watering down (Jessie Jackson’s daughter)…please.
Excellent article, and it opens up many very interesting issues.
For decades, the American news business was an AP cartel. The individual newspaper-members got a local monopoly, based on the high costs of distributing the physical product, fortified by the importance of local advertising and classifieds, and enhanced by AP exclusivity. The economies of scale achieved by pooling information collection were phenomenal, and the nature of the advertising business, in which advertisers naturally gravitate to advertising only in the paper with the largest circulation, contributed to the power of each local fishwrap.
The Internet is having mixed effects. It is killing the local papers, which can no longer rely on control of physical distribution and are losing the cash cow of classifieds. But the failure to protect intellectual property rights is destroying any ability to make money from newsgathering itself. As soon as a piece of news becomes public, hundreds of aggregators link to it and siphon off eye-balls from the creator.
The AP has legacy advantages, but no competitor can find a viable base from which to build a competitive system.
Ultimately, we may find a way to protect IP and allow for viable non-lefty alternatives. Speed the day!
Some of this is discussed in “Preparing the Obituary” – american.com/archive/2009/february-2009/preparing-the-obituary.
I’m a news junkie and have subscribed to my local paper for the past 25 years. Over the past couple of years, I’ve tracked bias in the paper, eventually developing a friendly E-mail relationship with the wire service editor. Some instances of bias were so obvious and egregious that he contacted AP about them. On occasion, he would print a follow-up story to balance the coverage, which is about all I could expect him to do. I don’t think he is at the paper any more, so I’ve quit reading it. Anyway, a couple of lessons from this experience that I can share.
1. Forget the on-line comments section or letters to the editor. The reporters and editors treat this as noise and chatter, and rarely take it seriously. Valid criticism and partisan rants look the same to them.
2. In all the time I monitored my paper, I saw evidence of liberal bias on a nearly daily basis. I recall perhaps one instance where a story leaned too conservative.
3. Groseclose’s book “Left Turn” is a great resource. Familiarity with Distortion Theory helped me explain things to my editor buddy. Is this a fact a liberal would want people to know? Are there facts not reported.that a conservative would want people to know?
4. My ultimate conclusion. The best a conservative can expect from the media is a fair shake. The worst a liberal can expect from the media is a fair shake.
“•An AP reporter wrote that supporters of the Keystone pipeline ‘say it will create over 1,000 jobs.’ Well, I guess 1over a dozen’ would also have been technically true. Supporters’ estimates actually range from 2,500 to 500,000, depending on whether they are referring to direct jobs or are also including gains from spin-off employment.”
That’s funny, because when GM justified that the government bailout its union I mean company, it proclaimed that the loss of its union I mean company dangit! would result in a loss of over 1 million jobs. When it was pointed out that GM does not employ that many people, GM stated that it was jobs that would indirectly be lost if GM shut its doors.
So, let’s understand the logic:
1) Preventing the loss of union jobs bailed out by the Obama Administration = people will be affected indirectly and should be reported
2) Building a pipeline that would bring jobs without government largesse, and would benefit all Americans including union members = people may be affected indirectly and, although it will be reported, the skepticism of such a scenario must be so explicit that you can see it oozing from the words on the page. In other words, it is a lie that was published to show how dastardly those Republicons are for daring to suggest their ideas are of any merit.
As long as you follow this pattern, you too can be an AP reporter, or any reporter for that matter.
Thank you for the very interesting and important column, but I find that this part
is a bit weak.
I feel that we need to know much more about this organization and its structure. We need to know who manages it, how the managers are chosen and by whom, and a lot of other things.
I do not have a way to start such a colossal work but we need to pull a Breitbart on this.
I wonder how we could do this.
I think that I remember that long time ago, on a blog that now has sided with the totalitarians but was then independent, someone posted an investigation on the office of AP in Great Britain and this revealed that that office was in the hands of a bunch of Palestinians and pro-palestinians extremists.
We need to know more, a lot more.
March 22, 2012 New rules allow US to store personal data longer
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57402933/new-rules-allow-us-to-store-personal-data-longer/
Warren Buffet May Owe A Billion Dollars In Back Taxes Obama’s favorite billionaire isn’t quite ready to practice what he preaches.by John Hayward 08/31/2011
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45889
OK, I see this info in that same Frequently Asked Questions page:
“Founded in 1846, the AP is a not-for-profit cooperative of news organizations, and it is solely focused on finding, reporting and distributing news. … It is headquartered in New York and has about 3,700 employees globally—about two-thirds of them journalists and editors—in more than 300 locations worldwide, including every statehouse in the U.S.
The AP is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by the 1,400 U.S. daily newspapers that are AP members. These members elect a board of directors that directs the cooperative.
AP’s members are U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. There are currently around 1,400 U.S. daily newspaper members and thousands of television and radio broadcast members.
Consult the Editor & Publisher yearbook for a complete listing of U.S. newspapers that publish AP content.”
All this sounds nice and sweet but evidently the board of directors has the immense power of influencing all the (old) media in the country (and internationally.)
Who are those directors ?
Where can we find their names ?
I found some info here:
http://ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_32ab4367-3c2d-56c4-9273-c5e052b98d66.html
“Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:30 pm
Mary E. Junck, the CEO of newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises Inc., was named chairman of the Associated Press board of directors Thursday.
In Montana, Lee Enterprises owns the Missoulian, Ravalli Republic, Billings Gazette, Montana Standard and Helena Independent Record.
Junck replaces William Dean Singleton of MediaNews Group, who had been AP chairman since 2007. She said one of her top priorities will be the search for a new chief executive to replace Tom Curley, who announced Monday that he plans to retire this year after almost nine years leading AP.
As chairman, Junck will help steer the AP’s efforts to boost revenue, in part by further expanding the cooperative’s video, Internet and mobile services.
“Making good, smart bets on the digital future is the direction we’ll keep going,” she said in an interview. “Tom has built a terrific foundation. The other thing he has done is work collaboratively in our industry. I see that going forward as well.”
The AP, founded in 1846, is the largest independent source of news and information in the world.
Junck, 64, has been an AP director since 2004 and became vice chairman in 2008. She is the first woman to head the board.”
I’ve seen Lee Enterprises described as a conservative, Republican corporation. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
To P Jay; Excellent suggestions. I haven’t had a suscription to a newspaper since 1994 for many of the reasons you list. Also, I refuse to watch MSM news or hear those hourly updates carried by radio. With effortless reading of various websites I easily know that about 50% of MSM is “bravo sierra”.
Thank God for bloggers and access to their publications.
But AP support of the subversion does not pay:
from Wikipedia:
“2010: AP earnings fall 65% from 2008 to just $8.8 million. The AP also announced that it would have posted a loss of $4.4 million had it not liquidated its German language news service for $13.2 million.[7]
2011: AP lost $14.7 million in 2010 as revenue plummeted for a second consecutive year. 2010 revenue totaled $631 million, a decline of 7% from the previous year. This is despite sweeping price cuts designed to bolster revenues and help newspapers and broadcasters cope with declining revenue.”
The cost structure imposed by the News Media Guild may ultimately be the rope that hangs them.
And more news, from an AP press release:
“Gary Pruitt, of McClatchy, to become new president and CEO of The Associated Press
March 21, 2012
NEW YORK — The Associated Press today named Gary Pruitt as its new president and CEO. Pruitt, currently chairman, president and CEO of The McClatchy Co., will join AP in July.
He succeeds retiring AP President and CEO Tom Curley to become the 13th leader of AP in its 166-year history.
Pruitt, 54, has served on the AP Board of Directors for nine years, including a period as vice chairman. He has worked for McClatchy for 28 years, being named president in 1995, CEO in 1996 and chairman in 2001.
The third-largest newspaper company in the United States, McClatchy owns 30 daily newspapers with a combined circulation of 2.0 million daily and 2.8 million on Sundays. Annual company revenues were $1.3 billion in 2011. More than 20 percent of the company’s advertising revenue – nearly $200 million — comes from digital advertising. Under Pruitt’s leadership, McClatchy took on ownership stakes in key classified advertising companies such as CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s largest online jobs site; the popular auto website Cars.com; and the rental site Apartments.com. It has agreements with Google and Yahoo, as does AP.
McClatchy is recognized for the value it places on news coverage and quality news content. McClatchy papers have won 52 Pulitzer Prizes over their histories, 13 of them the prestigious Gold Medal for Public Service. In 2009, The Miami Herald won a Pulitzer for breaking news photography for coverage of storms that caused a humanitarian crisis in Haiti. Like AP, McClatchy delivers its news content across an array of platforms, including newspapers, leading local websites, smartphones, tablets, e-readers, both paid and free mobile apps and niche publications.”
Good to know. However, I think the Pulitzer is about as tainted as the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, McClatchy is my favorite example of media bias in recent years. Remember when Cheney gave a speech on defense and Obama scheduled a defense speech on the same day? Mcclatchy ran a fact-check on Cheney but published Obama’s speech as a transcript without comment. Fair and balanced…
And finally we get our Board of Directors !
In the page linked here below, to each name is added a number of “relationship” and clicking on that you get to long lists of persons who share a position with the members of the Board of the AP in some other Board.
The whole network of those who tell us what we are allowed ti think can thus be mapped.
Here we go:
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?privcapId=1249808
Associated Press Board of Directors
Mary Junck – Lee Enterprises Inc.
Gary Pruitt – McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. R. Mitchell – The Associated Press, Inc.
William Singleton – MediaNews Group, Inc.
Walter Hussman Jr. – Wehco Media, Inc.
Jon Rust – Rust Communications, Inc.
Bruce Reese – Hubbard Radio, LLC
Steven Newhouse – Advance Publications, Inc.
Julie Inskeep – The Associated Press, Inc.
R. Fishman – Lakeway Publishers, Inc.
Charles Pittman – Schurz Communications, Incorporated
Craig Dubow – Gannett Broadcasting, Inc.
Donna Barrett – Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
Katharine Weymouth – The Washington Post Company
Michael Golden – The New York Times Company
Keith Murdoch AC – News Corp.
Leslie Hinton – Dow Jones Newswires Holdings, Inc.
David Thompson – The Associated Press, Inc.
David Paxton – Paxton Media Group, LLC
Always run from an AP identified report. It would be interesting to know how many of these people are big Obama or Democrat donors.
I admit, I’m older than dirt. I remember, distinctly, when my (much!) older brothers started insisting I read the newspaper (I was in 3rd grade) there was the UPI – United Press International, and at least one other whose name I can’t dredge up. The Omaha World Herald ran stories from both AP and UPI, with, I seem to recall, more from UPI when I was in grade school and starting high school. Then AP started gaining ground. In the 80s, there was a stringer for UPI in the Minnesota State Capitol building press area, who routinely filed radio reports on the local news stations. I just googled, and darned if UPI doesn’t exist – at least on paper! Why don’t I see UPI attribution any more? Or have they given up and just regurgitate the AP / are owned by the AP?
Did you try typing upi.com into your browser? Or looking it up in Wikipedia?
It still exists, and it isn’t owned by AP. But it’s much smaller and weaker than it once was.
Why do we even pretend anymore that the Press Secretary and the Press are distinct? Afterall, the Press Secretary position (for Dems anyway) is is merely a stepping stone to an NBC anchor position. I’d like to see the Press Secretary position abolished. Let Obama defend his own policies.
Check out the blog augeanstables.com. There I learned that the non-profit part of AP has a nifty (and profitable!) sideline providing news clips to Al-Jezeera and other middle-eastern media. Naturally, since the purchaser defines the need, and the necessity to adhere to Islamic standards, the profit side of the house has long since determined what is news and who gets hired to provide it.
Also consider that Fox News is half owed by “Crimson” Alwalaweed of the Saudi House. Heard about homicide bombers recently?
Whoever described Lee Enterprises as a “conservative, Republican corporation must have been stoned. I have read the Billings Gazette for decades. Most of its national and international news comes from the AP, so it is steeped in Obama-worship and lefty groupthink. The Gazette is a microcosm of what has happened to the industry. With its information and want-ad monopolies gone, the paper has cut local coverage to the bone. I can literally scan it while my food heats up in the microwave at work.
Mary Junck is despised by reporters at Lee papers for laying off people while accepting huge bonuses herself. Lee stock is just barely out of the “penny stock” range, and the company declared bankruptcy in December, 2011. Junck’s tenure can only be condidered a success by the pathetic standards of the newspaper business.
Thanks for the info. I think all local papers get their national and international news mostly from AP. I know my paper does but at least it tries to avoid the worst of the propaganda and the editorial page is conservative.
Just another hate-filled right wing post designed to deflect attention from the real criminals in the media, Fox News ands it Republican propaganda. While Bush was killing thousands of women, children, and minorities in his two,illegal wars, Fox was telling that Bush and his story troopers were being welcomed with open arms. Baghdad Bob was more honest. Now, Fox News darkens Obama’s skin every time they show him some seems blacker, and they always talk about him being black, pounding the message that Obama is a no-good you-know-what and needs to go. You need to talk about how Fox needs to be shut down for its lies, racism, sexism, and homophobia instead of smearing the AP.
I’m assuming you forgot the “(/sarc)” indicator, because you can’t possibly be serious.
Either that, or you really need to send your resume to the White House. You’d be a perfect candidate to be one of Obama’s czars.
Hey Vinny,you are truly an amazing find!I didn’t realize that minds like yours still existed.Sort of like walking into my living room & finding a Duck Billed Dinosaur sitting on the couch watching t.v..
Stop reading the comic books you are using for source material & upgrade your ideas a bit.In this way you will look less foolish when posting on the internet!
AP – Absolute Propaganda
For all you (us) conservative internet radio streaming listeners : Can you take the news breaks from AP with all it’s vomit and lies? Listen to your conservative feed for 5-10 minutes to be interspersed with lies and bias from the left. There is NO OTHER news feed, it’s all BS. I can’t permit my tablet or laptop to be outside of reach of my hand so that I can hit the speaker mute button which seems like 10 times an hour. I have a automated technical solution for this however there is no money (capitalism) to develop it.. oh well the mute button is simple and effective. I can’t TAKE IT ANYMORE! The bias is sickening.
As a recently retired state government PR guy, dealing with these AP clowns and general reporters, daily for years, I am astounded to learn the the Guild is a subset of the CWA. Believe me I know the “members” and the publishers and reporters, and I know their politics. Indeed, I have been crying for months about the Wisconsin Recall reporting and how unashamedly biased it is.
Where is the “full disclosure” union membership line from these reporters?
Where is the “full disclosure” line addendum from their editors?
Why is this incredibly important election year piece buried at the bottom of PJ’s also-rans list?
If I didn’t know this detail, just think how many thoughtful voters might find it “significant.”