Steve Boriss has shone a lot of light on the monopolistic MSM in this article, but he’s bent himself over backward to be lenient when he calls AP’s point of view merely ‘center-left’.
It’s a long way from the center, and it’s not to the right.
In its news from overseas, and from the Middle East particularly, the AP is solidly anti-american and pro-Palestinian, and has been the leading voice in convincing American citizens that the Iraq invasion has been ‘a disaster’. Compare the AP’s news from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel with that of the tiny number of independent journalists – Michael Yon, Michael Totten, Bill Roggio & other distinguished company, and see how the AP’s narrative is not only NOT giving the whole story, but almost certainly is shading its ‘news’ to produce a public opinion shift toward the European politically correct, ‘negotiate now and go back to sleep’, Bush-is-a-demon position.
Probably nothing has contributed to to the unpopularity of the Bush administration than this single monopoly of information. How can voters determine what’s best for the country when most of the real accomplishments of the past eight years have been screened out, and all the errors and unfortunate happenings emphasized and magnified?
The AP needs some real competition in the worst possible way, and even our hopes for Pajamas Media are merely faint beginnings.
