Posted on 05/15/2022 7:17:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Associated Press is well known — and rightfully so — for writing long, detailed articles on “what it all means.” They’re called “thumbsuckers” in the news business, and the AP has perfected them.
A thumbsucker article presupposes that the reader is an ignorant rube and needs to be guided from Point A to Point B of a topic in order to have it explained to them. The problem for the reader is that the AP reporter writing the story — or most other mainstream reporters writing the story — almost always allows his or her own bias to permeate the story, making a “what it all means” story into a “what it should mean to you, you ignorant wretch.”
But the AP’s latest thumbsucker — “GOP’s new midterm attack: Blaming Biden for formula shortage” — makes a silly attempt to guide the reader to the conclusion that the Republican attack lines are politically motivated.
OMG! Really?
Republicans aiming to retake control of Congress have already sharpened a message centering around blaming Democrats for high inflation, expensive gas, migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and violent crime in some cities.
But GOP leaders landed on an issue this week that it hopes could prove even more potent: tying President Joe Biden to a shortage in baby formula.
The uproarious response says a lot about how much respect the AP has lost in recent years.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
The only reason to be a “journalist” is to push a political message. That’s been true since the 60s, if not before.
Bunch of leftist radical Wellesley graduate students masquerading as journalists.
... and Rick Moran.
We need to stop the advance of socialism. If that means attacking Democrats with truth, then I am all for it. If that means attacking Democrats with lies, then I am also for it. In the case of Democrats, if you lie about them, it is more than likely true but not yet proven.
Let's try that out. Joe Biden is a pedophile.
I don’t think Wellesley has a graduate school, but I know what you mean.
The decent of journalism into political advocacy seems be strongly correlated with the emergence of journalism programs at major universities.
Failure is - failure. It should not be rewarded, but used as a life lesson.
Let’s go, Brandon. Just get off the stage, and take your crew with you. This is no longer entertaining.
I’m shocked that anyone pays money for the schlock produced by the Asinine Press.
“AP Is Aghast That the GOP Would Use Biden’s Failures as a Political Weapon. Aghast!”
Well, it is divisive to use these failures as a political weapon. Republicans need to be more bipartisan.
Sincerely,
Frank Luntz
Does that actually mean the AP admits Biden has failures?
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