Good post. Local editors for your LOCAL news service care (to an extent) what they put out. Be nice.
There will be outright misrepresentation, endless snide comments, allegations presented as facts, minor negative facts presented as revelation, endless Halliburto examination and any other bias the media needs to prove their loyalty to the left wing, especially, the labor unions to which they all belong!
Oh, yes, they ALL belong to a labor union, a union that loots their dues and sends them to the dems. There is no length that these left-wingers will not go to see that Bush is portrayed negatively and Traitor John is made t look an awful lot better than he really is.
I promise to work on this later today. In the mean time I have written a letter of complaint to the AP boss of the offending reporter (Tom Hays)and left a voice mail for the reporter himself. The CEO's email is tcurley@ap.org.
The Milwuakee Journal-Sentinel is reporting this straight. There were 15,000 people at that rally who know the truth -- including myself. I'm not sure that the JS still has 15,000 subscribers, so they are being very carefulbrcause people in Milwaukee are very angry at being portrayed as oafs. Talk radio in Milwaukee was having a fit about this yesterday afternoon -- especially when the AP desk told the talk radio guy to shove off.
What disturbs me is that today, the AP has dropped the offending reporter's name from the story and changed the storyline from boos to ooohs. Oooohs is probably more accurate.
In truth, President Bush transformed a wildly cheering, highly partisan crowd into dead silence for a moment and then to polite applause for President Clinton's recovery. He didn't even say what was wrong -- and I don't think he mentioned surgery, but I'll have to check the transcript.
He further asked for prayers for the people of Florida who are facing down another hurricane and for the children and parents in Russia engaged in the dreadful school siege.
Those requests received more applause than Clinton's illness did, but in truth I don't think anyone in the room knew about Clinton's hospitalization before the President announced it. We had no radios in there and had been standing for more than three hours awaiting his arrival. no one around me was aware of Clinton's problem.
I was standing right in front of the podium -- a little to the left (the President's right)and taking pictures. I could hear every word that the President heard and there were no audible boos. I would have heard them, if he could have heard them. There was a gasp, and polite, but respectful, applause -- as the President requested.
It is a scurrilous libel to say that the crowd booed and the president did nothing to stop it. The President had the emotions and actions of 15,000 loving people in the palm of his hand. He directed us to cheer, and to be quiet and listen, numerous times for more than an hour; and we complied each time. Our only boos were for the stupidity of the Kerry Kamp for their votes, positions, etc. One big boo and a lotof laughter (naturally) came when the Republicans noted that the Kerry kamp had referred to Lambeau Field (home of the Green Bay Packers) as 'Lambert Field'. You just don't make a mistake like that in Wisconsin and get a way with it! We didn't see an AP story about that blunder, now did we?
There was no mention of Kerry's VN record, nor the Swift Boats -- not needed. There was plenty of red meat to satisfy the crowd.
Speaking of meat -- I think it was Congressman Mark Green who answered Kerry's charge that Bush was "all hat and no cattle" with the rejoinder that Kerry was "all Ketchup and no beef!"
My call was in reference to AP writer Ron Fournier's "Analysis" of GWB's convention acceptance speech. This "analysis" was prominently positioned on the front page of yesterday's Breeze. Granted it was labeled "Analysis", but it was the one and only "analysis" anywhere to be seen.
To my surprise the Breeze has actually posted the column on their web site. Please judge for yourself whether a perceptible political orientation guides this "analysis".
How has it been determined that Hays is absolutely the one? I've seen a couple of names bandied about, I read that AP would not give the name to Mark Belling, etc.
(I admit I'm having a hard time keeping up with all this).
Excellent idea!
I sent an email to AP from their web site. Don't know if it will make a difference but it can't hurt. Remind they why the main stream media is becoming irrelevant.
Au contraire my friend.(a little French lingo there)
I have spent months doing just that and the result is not perceptable. Perhaps the most blatent storys are edited out, but since almost all AP stories are extremely biased and since the paper has no other source for national and international news.... the AP rules.
After the election, a few good and dedicated souls need to get our heads together and go after the AP.
Good post and info, Doc.
Translation: "We don't want it to advance the story about the anti-Kerry Vietnam Veterans, because it may turn some voters against our guy." How blatant can they be in their bias?