Update: 12/8/06 evening - Allahpundit responds to Kathleen Carroll, the Executive Editor of the Associated Press; 12/16/06 - Michelle Malkin has more questions for AP
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I've blogged on this before, but more and more bias and false reporting keeps coming to light in connection with the Associated Press. Michelle Malkin points to a "must read" column by Robert Bateman in today's New York Post. It begins:
THE most powerful media institution in all of human history is the Associated Press. Its news feed is ubiquitous - used, directly or indirectly, by every U.S. newspaper and TV news program and a vast number of foreign ones, too. AP maintains the largest world-wide
coverage, and its reader base is nearly immeasurable. Unfortunately, and repeatedly of late, this behemoth has not only been getting it wrong - but increasingly refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing.
Instead, acting more like a politician or the mega-corporation that it is, the AP crew spins, obfuscates and attacks. Now they're at it again in Iraq.
I have got direct experience of this - from challenging the AP's seriously flawed 1999 "scoop" about the masssacre near the South Korean village of No Gun Ri during the opening days of the Korean War. . . (more)
Malkin also links to Bob Owens' "Confederate Yankee", which likewise constitutes required reading. Malkin offers other links, including a video of Mark Steyn on O'Reilly last night.
Bob Owens' post includes material from Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit who in turn links to Bill Roggio,
While waiting to manifest on the flight to Fallujah, CNN played a news segment of President Bush announcing there would be no “graceful exit” from Iraq, and that we'd stay until the mission was complete. Two sergeants in the room cheered. Loudly. They then scoffed at the reports from Baghdad, and jeered the balcony reporting.
In nearly every conversation, the soldiers, Marines and contractors expressed they were upset with the coverage of the war in Iraq in general, and the public perception of the daily situation on the ground. They felt the media was there to sensationalize the news, and several stated some reporters were only interested in “blood and guts.” They freely admitted the obstacles in front of them in Iraq. Most recognized that while we are winning the war on the battlefield, albeit with difficulties in some areas, we are losing the information war. They felt the media had abandoned them.
During each conversation, I was left in the awkward situation of having to explain that while, yes, I am wearing a press badge, I'm not 'one of them.' I used descriptions like 'independent journalist' or 'blogger' in an attempt to separate myself from the pack.