It's pretty clear on whose side the AP is on these days . . . al AP!

Could this be the start of something good?

Journalism is becoming more like politics: War by other means.

That’s when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink.

We are the ultimate customer.

"The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem."

Just about says it all.

Unfortunately, Van . . . I think the Libs will view it as an expansion of their brazen agenda . . . not only the NYT, but now the AP.

Don't forget Bassem Mroue - another AP "reporter/stringer" who was reporting openly anti-Israeli propaganda this summer and more recently.

Do something to improve journalism, cancel your newspaper and kick a reporters ass.

Oh and BTW - Good Morning Charles!

#3 Obi-wan

Journalism is becoming more like politics: War by other means.

The Islamists figured that out at the very beginning, following the example of Ho Chi Minh.

#8 gymnast - geez, does it have to be in that order?! LOL!

#534 lowandslow

You were right!

may the B.Herald flush out & CRUSH the Boston Glob

When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.

Hmmm, that sounds familiar.

/is Bill Gates in charge of the AP too?

It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem.

I disagree with that. They know they hav a problem, but choose not to do anything about it. They're with the enemy, willfully.

BTW, morning all.

77% of girls who wear the veil say they do so because of physical threats.

The Burqa is the chains of modern slavery. it is a portable concentration camp.

But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.

What!?! You mean al-Reuters isn't an acceptable alternative to the Associated (with terrorists) Press?

I have great respect for al-Reuters.

The utmost respect.

Believe me.

#11, realwest. Extremists may, in addition, choose to send an incendiary letter to the editor.

#6 BigZ

Sigh. You're probably right. I was just having a momentary lapse of reason.

I'm not familiar with Boston. Is the Herald a big paper there?

The AP has another Iraqi stringer problem. Photographer Bilal Hussein is in U.S. custody, and the AP has been clamoring indignantly for his release. AP reports have buried the U.S. explanation that Hussein is being held without charge because - quite aside from producing photos that showed him to be overly intimate with terrorists in Fallujah - he was in an al-Qaeda bomb factory, with an al-Qaeda bombmaker, with traces of explosives on his person when he was arrested.

Enough right there to permanently revoke their credentials. Seize their assets and property while they're at it for good measure.

#15 JammieWearingFool - Morning JWF! Too bad about Rutgers and especially the heart breaking way they lost it.
What's you guess on the outcome of today's Giant's game?

This isn't just an idle threat.

The constant barrage of fraudulent negative war news is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, so to speak.

I'm still waiting for these clowns to start asking for the return of Saddam Hussein to 'stabilize' the country.

Ooooh...

A whiff of fresh air!

(Snurfff!)

Yep... the winds of change!

Pajamahadeen attack!

Death to the AP!

Allah Snackbar!

Where would we be without the internet bloggers?

The Herald also has my man Howie Carr.

How do you turn a noble undocumented worker into a sinister, conniving illegal immigrant?

You do it by hiring him to cut the lawn at Gov. Mitt Romney’s house, or at least that’s how the bow-tied bumkissers at The Boston Globe pulled it off.

The phrase that is usually frowned upon by the Globe - illegal immigrants - was used 11 times in a front-page story Friday. Yesterday, those same dreaded “illegal immigrants” made it into the lead sentence of the follow-up story.

So when did Pat Buchanan get hired as a rewrite man on Morrissey Boulevard?

Just a few months ago, it seems, the Globe’s ultimate icon, Ted Kennedy, was assuring us that illegals just want to play by the rules.

Yet now the Globe informs us that, when they’re not trimming Mitt Romney’s hedges, these one-man crime waves spend their days eluding authorities and trafficking in fake documents. And they are paid in cash - so much for all those taxes the Globe used to tell us they paid.

Ted Kennedy’s right. They do want to play by the rules. Their rules, not ours. And their only rule is, none of our rules apply to them.

The latest AP outrage is one outrageous incident. I think it would be helpful for people to see the larger context, which is that this is business as usual. It would be nice to see one location listing hundreds of outrageous examples, such as this huge one:

AP Sets Record for Most Bias Crammed into Smallest Space

The evidence would be overwhelming, in my opinion.

RedPhishHead - actually Bassem Mroue is not a stringer, he's regular AP staff. Egyptian, I believe. Oddly, I had direct exposure to some of his worrk in Iraq and he was one of the better ones - but that was a different story than the one that brought him to attention.

There are two levels to the problem - the stringers who probably do provide bad info, and the staff and editors whose attitudes, in general, are exactly as Crittenden describes. There were several occasions I in Iraq when I heard AP types - usually regular staff or even bureau chiefs - say things I couldn't believe.

It's not universal, and it's not limited to AP, of course. In general, based on some direct exposure to the field work vs. the finished product the world gets, I found some rays of hope among the younger types (both staff and stringers), but an unbreachable barrier of bias back at the headquarters (dominated by Vietnam-era crusaders with that whole set of professional and analytical handicaps). I'm not keen on waiting either, but time and generational turnover may improve the situation a little bit.

Excuse me y'all but I'm having yet another senior moment - who the hell owns the Associated(with Terrorists)Press, anyway?
I know various "news" organizations have contracts with AP to provide stories (the MSM is having such a tough time these days they've shut down their own "brand name" local news bureau's) but somebody(ies) get that money, and I wonder who?

Here is another AP reporter that needs canned, and now. She can't write a story without a "dig" line in it somewhere. Always has to have the little editorial comment to illustrate her stand on the issue.

Give it rest, Jennifer Loven.

"When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.

"That’s when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. That’s when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete..."

Ah! A man after my poor departed father's own heart! That's it in a nutshell, what he struggled most of his life to do here, in Mpls., because of John Cowles' monopoly with the Star-Trib!

Perfect, heartbreaking word: "someone else with the resources"...try as my Dad did, he couldn't scrounge enough up... ):

Died in his boots, trying, though...

realwest,

The picks are in.

Yes, that Rutgers ending was unfortunate. They went from a $17 million bowl to $500,000. Quite a disparity. I was pulling for USC yesterday and they too went down.

Will be interesting to see whether it's Michigan or Florida in the BCS title game. My hunch is Michigan.

21 realwest 12/3/2006 08:39AM PST

#15 JammieWearingFool - Morning JWF! Too bad about Rutgers and especially the heart breaking way they lost it.
What's you guess on the outcome of today's Giant's game?

Funny how Jamil Hussein first appeared in AP stories just a couple weeks after AP photographer Bilal Hussein was arrested. He is still being held and the AP is furious about that. Could the imaginary informant with all the outrageous information somehow be "payback" to the US for arresting their buddy Bilal?

Good comment from Jules Blog:

The AP is a monopoly, and high-level news executives, many of whom share the AP's anti-war and anti-administration sentiments, are likely to look at the latest scandal as just another one of the periodic speed bumps all news organizations encounter.

Speed bump? More like a racing stripe of the underwear variety.

A few years ago, people thought I was nuts for comparing the activist media to Goebbels and Streicher. Now, the real nature of the institutional media is exposed for millions to see, my analogy is not crazed hyperbole but the sober truth.
Follow their path, share their fate.

33 JWF

It will be Florida-Ohio State. I'm sure of it. After an undefeated Auburn got the BCS snub a couple years back, many will make sure the SEC doesn't get the short end of the stick again.

And the Buckeyes will kill Florida. I can't wait for that. Maybe that will shut up Urban Meyer, maybe the biggest whiner in college football right about now.

#33 JammieWearingFool - just read your picks and posted a "nit pick" comment of sorts. BTW, I think you're right about Michigan.

#37 mich-again

And the Buckeyes will kill Florida. I can't wait for that. Maybe that will shut up Urban Meyer, maybe the biggest whiner in college football right about now.

His whining may just cost Florida a shot at the NC.

Word on the street is that the AP has a new source: Tommy al-Flanagan.

I looked everywhere for a pic of any sort backing up AP's story even a tiny bit. Nada.

I did find this nice picture from the 'hood in question, wherein Lt. Col. Steven Miska of Task Force Dagger smiles as he shares a picture of his two children with an Iraqi woman on December 1, 2006 in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Bagdhad, Iraq. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have,

The public is the ultimate "customer" of AP news, and we don't *need* to know what, for instance, the Paleonazis are up to on a daily basis. It just gets shoved down our throats hour after hour.

The AP has lost its rudder?

To me that conveys that the AP is like a ship adrift. It appears to me that the AP has a hand firmly on its rudder and their ship is headed full steam ahead to destroy America.

The task ahead is to deal with this problem, which is noted in this article, just a couple of paragraphs beyond:
AP and the other wire services are used by all US local papers as their source of national and international reporting.
That's how the MSM maintains its monopoly control on presenting a monolithic Leftie/Dem worldview. That's one big reason the GOP lost, American newspapers, local radio and TV had one party line - identical coast to coast, that cast every issue in Left terms, favorable to the Democrat Party, and completely ignored issues that Americans should have been hearing about -feeding them instead worthless filler on celebrities.
The GOP made the mistake assuming that talk radio and the internet was reaching enough people. It isn't. Not yet. And the Left is going to make every effort that it never does.

Gotta read Curt's stuff at FloppingAces.
Must read.

Kudos, Curt!

It would be interesting to contemplate how the blogosphere could contribute to a new "wire service" -- one that enhances, verifies, and expands upon existing wire reports from the likes of AP, AFP, etc.

Then, it would only take a few newspapers picking up the new service to make it a player.

OT
Fwance doesn't need AP, it just keeps its children anesthetized as their land and heritage evaporates in one more generation.

Frogs: The wine will be gone, but the nukes will remain.

French children to be taught joys of wine as industry faces crisis

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]

Please note that the Associated Press has yet to produce proof that “Iraqi police captain Jamil Hussain” actually exists; all we got from them was an arrogant statement that they are “satisfied with their reporting.”

Shouldn’t it be simple for them to produce “Captain Hussain,” and repair the damage to their reputation? They certainly had no problem getting in touch with him when he had stories of atrocities and US war crimes

Check and mate.

#19 Van Helsing

The Herald has been the OTHER paper since I can remember ( and thats a long time )...It is big enough to kick ass and take more than a few names!

Please note that the Associated Press has yet to produce proof that “Iraqi police captain Jamil Hussain” actually exists; all we got from them was an arrogant statement that they are “satisfied with their reporting.”

So is Ra^ther.

Charles,

if the AP produced the guy, they'd get cut off from the bribes.

Why don't we ask AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll (kathleen.carroll@ap.org or kcarroll@ap.org) if she'd submit to her staffers and her personal finances undergoing a little audit?

#46 directorblue

It would be interesting to contemplate how the blogosphere could contribute to a new "wire service" -- one that enhances, verifies, and expands upon existing wire reports from the likes of AP, AFP, etc.

Then, it would only take a few newspapers picking up the new service to make it a player.

Advertisements (think MARKETING!) for people to read the blogs, with the URL's on little tear-off-tabs.

Posted in public places, train stations, supermarkets, etc. and replaced when defaced.

Shouldn’t it be simple for them to produce “Captain Hussain,” and repair the damage to their reputation? They certainly had no problem getting in touch with him when he had stories of atrocities and US war crimes.

I think they know full well that "Captain Hussain" is a figment of their stringer's imagination, but hope that stonewalling long enough will make the issue go away.

!

Like the Green Helmet Guy's antics, this will blow over. Just wait. By this time tomorrow, AP will fabricate another war crime that the Americans have committed. The MSM all over the world will report it, bloggers will dispute it, AP will stand by their story. Like the Ground Hog Day, this will go on and on and on. Anti-American news re-enforce anti-American attitudes over the world. Anti-American "news" pays.

Someone, somewhere, needs to point out that the government in Lebanon, in addition to being democratically elected by the people, is supported by the world's governments, except for Syria and Iran.

Reading the LA Times, and AP, you would think that it was installed by the US military and is a puppet regime of the US.

What is up with calling it "the US-backed government" of Lebanon" in the headlines and ledes?

Hizballa is not writing for the AP and Times. Are they?

Hezbollah sit-in has Beirut at a standstill
The Shiite party and its allies say they're staying until the U.S.-backed government falls.
By Megan K. Stack, Times Staff Writer
December 2, 2006

BEIRUT — Hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah supporters and their allies poured into the capital Friday in a mass protest that paralyzed the city center, laid siege to the prime minister's office and threatened an escalating campaign of civil disobedience until the U.S.-backed government collapses.

Reuters changed from US-backed to "western-backed" in their lede.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (Reuters) -- Lebanon's political crisis showed no sign of easing on Sunday, as thousands of pro-Syrian protesters pressed on with a sit-in aimed at ousting a Western-backed government intent on holding on to power.

of course, they bury the truth deeper down:

Siniora, who vowed he will not be forced out by the protests, won expressions of support from Arab and Western governments, including the United States, Britain and Germany.

From the AP, today:

Tension has been running high in Lebanon, particularly since Friday when Hezbollah supporters began an open-ended sit-in in Beirut in an effort to bring down the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.

...

Hezbollah, an ally of Syria that is backed by many Shiite Muslims and some Christians, contends the fight is against American _ not Syrian _ influence, saying the United States now dominates Lebanon in the interests of Israel.

I wonder what else the AP writers, ZEINA KARAM and Hussein Dakroub have written?

The first google hit for Zeina Karam brings up this:

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At present, our web site is still under construction. We are making an effort to present you with our entire spectrum of offers as soon as possible. At this point we can provide you with information regarding [insert information or delete sentence]. The emphasis of our site is on [insert information or delete sentence]. This topic is certainly of interest to you. Check this site later, please.

In the meantime you can reach us at [insert telephone number] and by fax at [insert fax number]. We are looking forward to hearing from you. You can also contact us at our e-mail address: [insert e-mail address].

If you are not familiar with our company and your first contact with us is online: We would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.

In brief, you should know the following about us: our company was established in [insert year] and had been responsible for providing outstanding [insert service, products] ever since. Our specialty is in the area [insert information or delete sentence]. Our regular customers particularly value [insert information delete sentence]. Our business is located at [insert address].

Email: zeina@zeinakaram.com

Other Zeina Karam articles:

By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A U.N. agency said Saturday that Israel laid mines in Lebanon during this summer's war between the Jewish state and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group _ the first time Israel has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.

US-Funded Al-Hurra TV Begins Broadcast

Zeina Karam

Associated Press, Arab News

BEIRUT, 15 February 2004 - A satellite television station financed by the US government launched broadcasts aimed at Arab viewers yesterday with an exclusive interview with US President George W. Bush in which he praised Iraqi determination to achieve democracy.

Overall, I do not find too much overtly anti-western writing by this AP writer, however. I'm sure someone could find better, with more digging though...

This is such a beautiful example of media taqiyyah. Even the host character, a "captain", no less, is so worthy of the kind of namejacking (or jacking up a name) so befitting their corrupt enterprise.

Mineral #56,

I heard the exact same phrase, "US-backed government", to describe Lebanon on NBC news on Friday. Arrogant bastards, all.

Perhaps we should start referring to "the media-backed terrorist group Hizballah"?

If I see the AP logo I generally don’t read the article.

Crittenden didn't mention AP's disinformation campaign against the "Green Helmet man" expose led by EU Referendum blog. EUR's summary: [Link: eureferendum.blogspot.com...]

There have been questions raised concerning my existence. Please be assured I am real.

The reason I can't have personal info released proving I am real is that it might put me in danger. My situation is really serious. It is not like when Rumsfeld and Cheney had their weekend home locations exposed by the NYTIMES travel section in June of 2006.

I am a real person who is a non-biased correspondent conduit for the truth, just ask the AP. It is terrible in my country. George Bush is very bad. Please help by sending more "story money" so I may continue to bring truth to power.

Love and Kisses,

Captain Jamil Hussain
(address withheld by request)

Who cares anymore about these organizations anymore! They are undermining the very same system which grants their existence. Too stupid for words. This is the syndrome of a social malaise born out of ignorance and fatal naivete. Stupefying!

The rest of us just have to do what's necessary to keep these useful idiots from sending our collective asses down the proverbial S--t Creek without the proverbial paddle.