[rockinqsranch]

The Associated Press is owned by over 1500 Newspaper Publishers.

Also was wondering if per chance Eason Jordan might think by writing such an article as this against the AP, he might regain some of his lost credibility. I know it sounds far fetched, but just a thought.

[tobyhill]

If Eason had an opportunity to smack-down any Conservative on-line publication then he would have done it so obviously there is nothing he can find truthful about this AP source.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Also was wondering if per chance Eason Jordan might think by writing such an article as this against the AP, he might regain some of his lost credibility. I know it sounds far fetched, but just a thought.

That is what I think, too. However, here is the crux of the matter in my opinion.

The Iraqi journalists who work for the AP are smart, dedicated and incredibly courageous to go into the streets every day, talking to their countrymen and trying to capture a portrait of their home in a historic and tumultuous period.

Theses Iraqi "journalists" know the kind of stories AP and most other American media want and they give them what they want, true or not and usually not. The more anti-America and gruesome the better.

The non Arab speaking US reporters can't go into the areas to check these stories so they depend on the Iraqis to verify their own work, which they dutifully do. It is the same as Dan Rather's forged but true fiction.

It is also the same scam Eason Jordan ran with Saddam while at CNN. Maybe he is trying the old liberal everybody-does-it excuse.