I sure wish the other members of the media would care about this scandal. They should be demanding that the AP produce the source. Otherwise, any AP article, at least as it relates to Iraq, is automatically going to be suspect, and this can only cause further damage to the news media that get their stories from the AP.
If I were an AP director I'd be plenty angry at the public response thus far.
That would never happen. Much of what newspapers and broadcast media report on is based on AP material. If AP is revealed as slipshod and biased, where does that leave them, especially since they usually take AP material as true without criticism?
reporters do not willy nilly tell the public their magical secrets. That is like you on the football team and on a play your tackle moves early and no flag from a ref,so you rise and point to the tackle and say,hey he moved. Now football ain't a religion but journalism is.