Until I started writing on a blog I didn’t realize what a stranglehold the AP had on the news. In researching various stories I constantly ran across the attribution to the AP regardless of which news agency I went to. The story would always be a regurgitation of the original AP story, and yes even Fox news uses them.
It is a hassle to try and find a different version of a story because I try to track down a blog or local source not affiliated with the AP.
I encourage everyone when you have some free time to pick a story you are interested in and then visit all of the major news outlets and see just how many of them are merely reposting the original AP story.
Add that to the fact that the AP gets much of its information regarding the Middle East and the war of terror from members of the radical elements working for their propaganda wing and you can start to understand why the coverage of what is happening in the Middle East is so one sided and in more then one case completely false.
