Fausta, another esteemed PJ contributor, also attended Condoleezza Rice’s speech at the Woodrow Wilson School yesterday. In response to the Associated Press’ report on the proceedings, she proposes a new diagnosis for the American Psychiatric Associations’s DSM… APDD – Associated Press Deficit Disorder. [That sounds like an extremely serious syndrome.-ed. Almost untreatable.]
It will be interesting to see as PJMedia goes forward how the AP really does respond to the presence of educated citizen journalists in their midsts reporting on the same events. The coverage of this one has been highly instructive.
We saw an example of their reaction to citizen journalists when they reported a Republican crowd ‘booing’ when President Bush mention Bill Clinton’s heart troubles. It was an out and out lie and they were busted.
APDD is so dangerous because the MSM often takes their reports and runs them verbatim. AP makes corrections on the net, but doesn’t note it and often after the original, flawed, report has been picked up by numerous outlets.
I am anxious for PJM to get going because I am excited about a coordinated effort to get the truth out. I am only patient because I know it takes time to do it right.
Yes indeed. APPD, a diagnosis whose time has come.
You are so right, kynna, about how the rest of the press takes the AP errors and runs with them, compounding the damage. As a matter of fact, I just posted an article on this very subject, an AP mess-up–this time concerning an erroneous caption heard round the world. The echoes still reverberate.
The AP seems to think it doesn’t have to check facts and be accurate any more. Perhaps it’s taken post-modernist thought too much to heart.
An enthusiastic round of applause for PJM and a sincere thank you as well.
Too, a recent Blair speech is similarly compelling.
It’s gotten so bad that when I see the AP (Associated Phables) byline, I immediately stop reading and go on to the next article. I assume that the AP article is first of all false (as the crowd booing at Bush’s wishes for Clinton’s quick recovery from heart surgery piece), or that significant facts were ommitted since it didn’t support the AP’s political agenda. In any event, I don’t pay them any attention anymore. After all, why waste my time on propaganda?
Vulgorilla,
May I offer a slight amendment?
How ’bout “Assorted Phables?”
Double thanks, Roger!
I just realized there’s a corollary of APDD, which is Total APDD: when AP doesn’t report at all on a newsworthy event: For instance, unreported by AP, but covered by TigerHawk, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speech at The Woodrow Wilson School.
(No, I didn’t go to Gen. Petraeus’s lecture.
I was in town, but the weather was nice and I was enjoying it.)