Only Partial Improvement: AP Finally Notes Fuller's 'Democracy Now' Appearance, Waters Down

Newsbusters ^ | 1/16/11 | Tom Blumer

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Yesterday (covered here at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), in his report on the arrest of Eric Fuller at an ABC "This Week" taping in Tucson, Arizona, the Associated Press's Bob Christie either failed to perform a basic web search that would have revealed Fuller's Friday "Democracy Now!" rant, or failed to report what he found.

This evening's AP report from Christie and Amanda Lee Myers at least recognizes Fuller's appearance on the far-left program. But that acknowledgment appears at Paragraph 14 of a report that is primarily about Gabrielle Giffords's recovery (headlined "Rep. Gabrielle Giffords condition improves"), instead of in a different AP dispatch this evening ("With shock subsiding, pain sets in for AZ victims") where addressing Fuller's outburst would have made more sense (what would have made the most sense is a separate report on Fuller alone).

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Full Title: Only Partial Improvement: AP Finally Notes Fuller's 'Democracy Now' Appearance, Waters Down What He Said

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"Fuller, who works as a signature collector for political initiatives, was about 10 to 15 feet away from Giffords, talking to her volunteers, when the shots erupted on Jan. 8.

He said earlier this week he was hit by a bullet when he dove to the ground to play dead.

He decided that because he didn't have any medical training to help others, he walked to his car and drove himself to the nearest hospital."

HERE

Not even a band aid .

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Can anyone confirm he was shot?

Which Hospital and Er Doctor treated him?

What are the nature of his wounds?

He fled the scene without rendering aid or making a statement to the police.

By now the LEOS must have talked to the staff that worked on him in this investigation.

He may have made some great first statements to the ER staff about what he witnessed.