“I became aware of the AP bias via its editorializing about 20 years ago”
I cancelled my local paper over 30 years ago when they printed a story from the AP about a crime in which a “military style assault pistol” was used. I later read that the gun was a Colt 1911.
two things awakened me from political apathy and the bias of the media:
1. Tom Brokaw droning on about semi-automatic “assault” rifles, while in the background, silent vid clips were showing steady arcs of cases being ejected from machine guns ...
2. An AP sob-story article by then cub-reporter Fareed Zakaria about how the Somalia pirates were just trying to support their poor families, and in an interview with a pirate, Fareed referred to the pirate as “Mr. Pirate”, and i thought, WTF?