Posted on 09/04/2004 5:36:40 AM PDT by Dog
And John Kerry says he wishes there was a delete key on Lexus Nexus.
Tom Hays, you are a lying SOS and your puke bosses probably rewarded you with a raise. I hate the media.
The crowd left out the clap. Kerry did nothing to correct them, guessing Clinton had seen plenty.
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I wonder what other lies a Lexux-Nexus search for "Tom Hays" would produce?
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Good fine .. thanks for the ping
It appears that the AP **has** now issued a correction.
From wcco.com:
Bush Offers Good Wishes To Clinton For Speedy Recovery
Sep 4, 2004 9:27 am US/Central
NOTE: This is a correction to an incorrect story posted by AP on Friday stating the crowd booed the President when he sent his good wishes. The crowd, in fact, did NOT boo.
Jason Blair was more benign. At least he wasn't trying to impact an election, and that's what I think this man was doing.
He should be fired.
NEW YORK -- Saying police were more likely to provoke violence, anti-globalization activists planning peaceful protests of the World Economic Forum said Tuesday authorities are portraying them as terrorists. "The police have been putting up a counter-campaign trying to portray the protesters as terrorists," Mac Scott said at a Manhattan news conference called by protest organizers.
Another activist, Star Hawk, accused news media of focusing on a potential clash between demonstrators and the police, rather than the protesters' message of "global justice" for the poor and for developing nations.
"There is no secret cabal of violent thugs in the movement," she said.
The comments came a day after police officials announced plans to use nearly 4,000 officers to secure several blocks around the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in midtown Manhattan. About 3,000 political and business leaders will meet there Thursday-Monday for discussions on the world economy.
Citing street violence that has erupted at similar international forums in recent years, New York authorities say they will strictly enforce order. One law, dating to 1845, bars demonstrators from wearing masks.
Leaders of labor, student and environmental groups told reporters that peaceful demonstrations were planned for each day of the conference. Some will feature giant papier-mache puppets and song and dance, including a "Radical Rockette kick line."
"For weeks, the police have been training in riot tactics," said Brooke Lehman of Direct Action Network. "We've been training in samba, puppetry and street theater."
Partly as a show of solidarity with a city stricken by terrorism, the World Economic Forum is being held in New York instead of the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where it has been held for 31 years.
Protesters call the Forum "the dining club for the ruling class." Forum organizers counter by suggesting that angry demonstrations would be inappropriate after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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bttt
I believe this problem is common at Time and Newsweek magazines.
If the problem is with the Wisconsin affiliate, it is possible that they have since covered their tracks before the story went to print locally.
Alternatively, there may have been a video feed from Wisconsin to NY and Hays was asleep at the switch when he should have vetted the story for errors, but didn't.
In any case, it's hard to believe that someone would willingly embarrass themselves and their news organization in front of the entire world. Whether or not the Internet AP story was withdrawn, hardcopy snapshots still exist in newsrooms all over the world by now, as Hays and AP must know. Whatever system AP uses to report the news ultimately relies on human beings working accurately. In this case, someone slipped in some prejudice, and it did not get caught. It is not supposed to happen. But when it does happen, the ambient political bias usually ensures that the error is in favor of liberals. The number of such errors occuring, in combination with the counter-conservative effect, probably means that AP is not terribly concerned with correcting the problem, although they may conduct some perfunctory review of their existing procedures.
Is it just me or does it seem like these people are just like the staff of the Kerry campaign?
They do something wrong, then try to cover it up, do it badly and then it really starts to blow up from there.
Reminds me of what an old friend used to say:
"He's got mighty short toes and his boots're full of bullet holes"
bttt
Here's what I wrote to Tom Curley on this issue. Thanks for the email address jimbo!!
I was very disturbed to note that one of your reporters completely fabricated a news story about rebublicans booing when told about President Clinton's impending surgery. I have read enough eye-witness accounts of the incident to satisfy me that your reporter simply made up a story in order to fit some pre-conceived political agenda.
Sadly, when talking about thinks like journalistic integrety and ethics, we can no longer include the AP in a list of companies that adhere to that standard.
I am taking it upon myself to notify via email all the people in my address book so that they can know what your reporter did and how you have so shamefully covered it up without a setting the record straight. I will encourage them to notify everyone in their address books, and so on, thus bypassing your media filter. After all, the public has a right to know.
I demand that a clear retraction and correction be published and distributed as widely as your made up story and that the reporter who perpertrated this lie be diciplined.
Assignment to self: learn how to use Lexus/Nexus!
They are getting hammered it seems..
Maybe they don't, but your local paper, which carries AP stories, might want to know.
Relate to your local paper clearly in a letter what has happened, and how the AP tried to cover its tracks. No real correction, just airbrushing out intentionally deceitful reporting. Let them know that they left a number of papers carrying the story on the hook.
Remind them that repeating another's malicious lies does not insulate them from liability for demation.
Demand that they cease publishing AP stories.
I just emailed to the link in this thread with the following. I will post a result as soon as I get a response.
" September 4, 2004
News Director: Associated Press
Please tell me the employment status of Tom Hays with your "credible" news organization. What happenned yesterday puts the Associated Press in the same category as the New York Times and the Jason Blair scandal.
It was entirely irresponsible reporting on AP's part, and that it was one reporter DOES NOT wash. Please tell me your policy for discrepancies like these, and the circumstances that allowed this to happen.
I will eagerly anticipate your response, and I will consider a non-response that you are not concerned about your credibility with the public that sometimes think your reportings are true.
I would detail the incident but I am VERY sure you are all too aware of the incident to which I refer."
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