AP Puts Bias Down the Memory Hole
Charles Johnson
Tue Dec 26, 2006 at 9:43 am PST • Views: 421
The AP has silently rewritten their ghoulish piece equating the number of 9/11 victims with the number of soldiers killed in Iraq, and made the original vanish down the memory hole: U.S. deaths in Iraq exceed 9/11 count. (Hat tip: Rand Simberg.)
This is how the article originally started:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached 2,974, one more than the number of deaths in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, according to an Associated Press count on Tuesday.
The U.S. military announced the deaths of two soldiers in a bomb explosion southwest of Baghdad on Monday.
The deaths raised the number of troops killed to 2,974 since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks claimed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
UPDATE at 12/26/06 1:52:34 pm:
Apparently, the Associated Press likes this comparison so much they’re going to turn it into boilerplate in stories about casualties in Iraq. (Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.)
Earlier Tuesday, the military also announced the deaths on Monday of three American soldiers. The U.S. military death toll to at least 2,978 five more than the number killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
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