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Got questions about the news? Ask AP (They want your questions)
AP via Yahoo ^ | Thu Jan 10, 4:51 PM ET | The Associated Press

Posted on 01/11/2008 10:11:03 AM PST by ElkGroveDan

Does the news ever leave you wanting more?

Do you read about world events online and wish you could click on a Tell Me More button? Do you watch newscasts, read blogs and download news podcasts, only to end up frustrated by a question that's left ringing in your head?

Here's your chance to get some answers from the people who really know the news: journalists at the world's largest newsgathering organization.

Introducing "Ask AP," a Q&A column where The Associated Press answers your questions about the news — anything from "What's a subprime mortgage?" to "What ever happened to Linda Tripp?" to "How does a reporter prepare to be embedded with the military in Iraq?"

AP editors will choose some of the questions sent in by readers like you and get answers from AP reporters and editors — the people who spend their days covering the very issues you're curious about.

So send your questions to newsquestions@ap.org, with "Ask AP" in the subject line. Then keep an eye out for installments of the new Q&A column, where you'll finally get some answers.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ap; apbias; asspress; dnctalkingpoints; enemedia; mediabias; propaganda; proterrorist
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To: ElkGroveDan
WHO is AP?

Who is the person (aka editor) that decides what goes out for everyone to see? Who is the person who decides how things are worded?

I know what AP stands for. What I'd like to know is who is making their decisions.

21 posted on 01/11/2008 11:08:11 AM PST by A Cyrenian
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To: BlueDragon

Always look to the LAST two paragraphs to get to the bottom of the story and to cut through the BS and opinion that precede the inevitable “but monkey”.


22 posted on 01/11/2008 11:08:37 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: longtermmemmory
why doesn’t the AP release its approved languge use writer’s manual free online so the public can see it?

Because then some enterprising young programmer could offer a babblefish-like online translator between "AP-speak" and what actually happened.

23 posted on 01/11/2008 11:10:47 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

The AP should really do what Bloomberg News does. Bloomberg writes their own stories, and the authors put their direct e-mail and phone numbers on the bottom. People can call in to clarify or make corrections, and they often do. It also keeps a lot of bias out of the stories, since the authors know they’d get harassed if they become too partisan.


24 posted on 01/11/2008 11:13:04 AM PST by July 4th
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To: ElkGroveDan

They will stop this real quick after I ask them a few questions.


25 posted on 01/11/2008 11:26:17 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: ElkGroveDan

Sure, I have a question for them. Have they ever considered reporting the unvarnished truth?


26 posted on 01/11/2008 11:40:28 AM PST by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: July 4th

I think there was a Chicago columnist who wrote a column about how he resented that his contact information was given out and he outright declared that he could care less what his critics thought of his political opinions.


27 posted on 01/11/2008 11:40:46 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Why does AP explain why?


28 posted on 01/11/2008 11:43:18 AM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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To: weegee

heres My Question.... Ap....Why do you lie? and
spin the News to fit your leftist agenda?

also Do you pick your feet in Poukeepsie?


29 posted on 01/11/2008 11:45:32 AM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: weegee

that would be very interesting.

right now you have to BUY the owellian AP Writer’s Guide.

Imagin if bablefish did a AP translator!!!

Reminds me an OMNI magazine short story about an inventor who creats a universal translator box that even translates leagalese. It could translate treaties. It could be revearsed to create contracts with all the complex legal terms. The governments and lawyers pay the inventor a fortune to retire in a lifestyle of dreams of avarace.


30 posted on 01/11/2008 2:38:32 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: ElkGroveDan

What’s the difference between the AP and Pravda?


31 posted on 01/11/2008 8:16:44 PM PST by dr_who_2
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