The AP Changes "Boos" to "Ooohs" (Finally getting the truth out)

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[Dog]

The reporter has been ID'ed.

Intsapundit has this from another blogger.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Apparently, this story is not by Scott Lindlaw, as earlier reported, but by Tom Hays. Jonathan Last has more on this, and observes:

So the AP: (1) Puts out a story with falsified reporting; (2) Pulls the story; (3) Removes the faulty reporting; (4) Makes no note of its mistake; and then (5) Pulls the byline of the reporter who made the error. If you were going to impute bad faith to the folks at AP--and at this point that's not unreasonable to do--you might suspect that they have pulled Tom Hays's byline to protect him.

Behold the power of Lexis-Nexis. The AP was able to cover their tracks on the web, but Lexis-Nexis keeps all versions of stories which carry different time-stamps. The Hays original is preserved there in its entirety.

He's got it. He also observes: "This is a fine time for Romenesko to be on vacation. Let's hope he digs into this story on Tuesday. Paging Howie Kurtz . . . "

MORE: Still more here.

posted at 09:09 PM by Glenn Reynolds

[SkyPilot]

But AP is still refusing to name the reporter of their anonymous hit piece, aren't they?

Hillary Stalin.

[lentulusgracchus]

Man, I wish there were an absolutely reliable, semantic-savvy, propaganda-savvy, dry-eyed "Consumer Reports" for Big Media political propaganda in the U.S. So far only a few people like Reed Irvine and Brent Bozell are out there, but they're conservatives and so people discount them.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is pretty much up-the-middle, but she confines herself to discussing message from the campaigns, and she's just an occasional guest on The Newshour. She needs to have a supporting organization like Media Research Center at her elbow, working on media presentation of issues so that she can expand out from just analyzing parties' and candidates' platforms and messages for content and identifying their various appeals. The poisoning of the information well with press campaigning and advocacy journalism is what needs early and comprehensive attention. So far the best thing I've seen is Lying in Ponds:

Media Bias: Lying in Ponds.

[mewzilla]

Thank you!!

[Dog]

AP reporter ID'ed......behold the power of Lexis-Nexis......AP forgot to scrub Lexis-Nexis.....hahahaha!!!

[lentulusgracchus]

Good catch, Dog. Got a link for that bias-buster?

[Brian Mosely]

Check out this comment that was just posted to my blog:

Boy, you wingnuts are whiny little bitches, aren't you?

Do you think that anyone is going to believe a bunch of right-wing moonbats like Freepers? Give me a break.

Why don't you anti-American extremists stop looking for conspiracy theories under every rock and start acknowledging the fact that your ideology is not only incompatible with America's history but antithetical to common sense and common decency?

Your shrill, paranoic cries of "media bias" make you look like simpletons--but since you're wingnuts, I guess that's appropriate.
# posted by SMD : 7:22 AM

And my response:

"Do you think that anyone is going to believe a bunch of right-wing moonbats like Freepers?"

Well, SMD...since Editor and Publisher, America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry, has posted a piece on it at: http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000624935

I'd have to say that's a yes. Nice try, though.
# posted by bkm : 7:28 AM

I guess denial isn't just a river in Egypt after all...

[TalBlack]

Several Web sites revealed that AP "retracted" the report "citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction."

Pretty embarassing that reporters for a big news syndicate don't have the ability to characterize a crowds reaction. Have they been fired?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[afz400]

"The next thing to make the AP fix, is their lack of term 'terrorists' ".
The real fix that needs to be made IMHO is to use the word "Muslims" instead of "terrorists". Oh I forgot they are a religion of peace.

[OldFriend]

I sent them an email. Told them I had no idea Michael Moore was writing their wire stories.

On the other hand.......when I first heard the news on the radio about X42, they characterized it as the man having had a heart attack. I was shocked and felt immediate sympathy for Chelsea.

After watching mrs. grifter use the opportunity to make a remark about health care I abandoned all sympathy for the man.

[steveegg]

Update to the original story (including digging out the name of the Clymer who wrote the "boos" for the AP, Tom Hays) PING.

[G.Mason]

"In a dispatch sent to subscribers in early afternoon, the AP reported that when Bush, at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, told the crowd that he wished to send Clinton his "best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery," the audience "of thousands booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
Pretty damning, except that AP soon changed its story, only after the original appeared on many Web sites.

Several Web sites revealed that AP "retracted" the report "citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction."

The new version moved on the wire Friday described the same incident this way, after relating Bush's remarks:

The crowd reacted with applause and with some boos, whereby Bush immediately jumped down from the podium and proceeded to beat the living Hell out of every old lady in the front row, until restrained by the Secret Service.

[Rebelbase]

....And Bush did nothing to stop them!

[prairiebreeze]

Hail the power of Lexis-Nexis and the blogosphere! Tom Hays is on my big time "S" list.

Prairie

[reformedliberal]

Good blog! Thanx! This is one of my personal obsessions. I call the entire thing the Journo Wars. It is a war for our minds. As a news junkie, I strongly resent the theft of unbiased information that allows me to make an informed opinion.

[steveegg]

Thanks for the updates. It's been a rather hot story around these parts, both on the state board and on local radio.

[Grampa Dave]

Re Tom Hays. Whenever, I see/read one of these outrageous lies by a reporter, I run a Yahoo search on him/her/it with gay as part of the search. Many of the outrageous stories like this one have been written by gay activists pretending to journalists.

Tom Hays is apparently a long time gay activist reporter for the AP.

Here was an interesting find in the yahoo search: Stachelberg said one of the speakers at the press conference would be Tom Hays, the surviving domestic partner of American Airlines co-pilot David Charlebois, who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He was aboard the airplane that terrorists crashed into the Pentagon.

The search showed a lot of articles re gay agendas going back to the Don't ask nor tell policy coverage.

[Dog]

Checking breaking news steve...

[John Thornton]

Do a Google news search on "Clinton boo Bush" and write to the websites that are reprinting this garbage. Here is one: http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=2257936

[John Thornton]

More Leftish spin:http://cbs2chicago.com/cooler/watercooler_story_247163112.html