https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/07/10/ap-embraces-corporatism/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:23:31 -0400<![CDATA[Back in late June of 2008, when the subtext of every AP article was &#8220;please, please vote for that Obama fella,&#8221; they published &#8212; as a straight news item &#8212; an article with the improbable headline &#8220;Everything is Seemingly Spinning Out of Control&#8221; &#8212; this in a month when unemployment was at 5.5 percent, when the Dow Jones was around 12,000, and when the financial meltdown of the fall of that year was not yet an issue in the news cycle. But that didn&#8217;t stop liberals both in and out of the media from wanting to push that snowball down the hill early, with a serious case of Depression Lust, including the AP, which went into full freakout mode with a headline and story that would quickly become a running gag for James Taranto in his Best of the Web column at the Wall Street Journal:]]>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:08:48 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2012/07/10/ap-embraces-corporatism-n255704