Posted on 06/14/2010 8:28:53 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
On Monday (June 14), Associated Press reporter Colleen Long wrote two articles about two different criminal cases in New York State, both involving political operatives accused of breaking the law.
The first was about "Hank Morris... adviser to former state comptroller Alan Hevesi, [who] has been accused of taking kickbacks and other payments...."
The second was about John Haggerty, who is accused of duping New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg into giving him money for campaign expenses and then using the money for personal expenses instead.
The story about Morris never mentioned that he was a Democrat political consultant, or that his disgraced former boss Hevesi was also a Democrat.
Long's story about Haggarty led with the fact that he was "a Republican operative" and made sure to mention that he was currently an advisor to potential GOP governor candidate Carl Paladino, despite the fact that Paladino is not implicated in the case.
Two scandals. Same state. Same news organization. Same reporter. Different Parties. Different treatment.
Nope, not at all. Like the Martha Waggoner coverage of Bob Etheridge's attack...the lies are blatant.
She wrote that the victims had approached the perp, not the truth (that they were standing there and he approached them, something CLEARLY seen in the video). She doesn't write about the original video itself (which was up independently, first), but reports only about the later Breitbart posting of an edited one, doing two things: (1) making it sound like it was Breitbart-originated, and (2) making it sound like there was no unedited version showing the assault.
She also never mentioned the alleged robbery (cell phone), etc. It was a pure propaganda piece. Even though Martha Waggoner is a union hack who is mocked by those in the know, the average reader might believe he is getting truthful reporting.
APis a co-op operated by the member news organizations. Each group that takes from the AP store also has to put stories into it. Money changes hands somewhere, but I don’t know the details.
"A city built upon a hill cannot be hid."
I think the AP is a not for profit corporation. If so, there may be restrictions on the amount of political campaigning they can do and still hold their tax exempt status. I think we need someone to challenge it on the theory that their special brand of journalism amounts to overt political support of the DNC.We need to figure out how to bankrupt the AP. This Leftist propaganda organization must be held accountable for crimes against the People of the United States of America.
I don't think AP is not-for-profit. AP has been sued successfully for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. And that would certainly seem to be an avenue to attack it in the future.AP is a co-op operated by the member news organizations. Each group that takes from the AP store also has to put stories into it. Money changes hands somewhere, but I don’t know the details.The members of the AP are feeling the pinch of the loss of the news monopoly due to the internet, and that is pinching the AP and causing it to have to retrench. The fact that membership in the AP is expensive is part of the bias of journalism which needs to get value for those bucks.
The Fourth Estate protections do not apply to advocacy groups. Just a FREE PRESS. The AP is an advocacy group...There is no such thing as an "Estate" under the Constitution. No titles of nobility are legal here.And that is the point - the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press are rights of the people. The names of the Associated Press, the National Press Club, and probably many other "press" organizations arrogate to themselves privileges which they would deny to the people - such as "Shield laws" and "press privileges" under McCain-Feingold - and those distinctions are artificial and arbitrary. Because even if I don't own a press yet, I still have the same rights that I would have if I hit the lottery and won a newspaper.
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You’re right - they don’t even try.
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