AP is just part of the big Crony Capitalism machine...and in partnership with Big Oil/Electricity/Government.
“If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen.”
“We hide it so you can’t decide it.”
“News you can’t use.”
“The news you thought you knew but didn’t really.”
But I have s suggestion for the AP lead:
Happy days are here again, Wealth to the masses can begin, Free energy without end, Just buy the e-cat steamin’ gin, Burma-Shave!
There's a group of FUSIONISTS who criticize and actually try to repress any experiments or developments based on the use of "low velocity neutrons" ~ e.g. Rossi's e-Cat, and a number of other projects that've shown surplus heat and even residual transmutations of metals (otherwise unexplained)
These guys just won't hear of it ~ much like the high energy physics guys ~ it's hard enough getting grants and they don't want the competition.
However, the biggest bunch of opponents are, of course, the Environmentalists who want solar power, windpower, waterpower or recycling! Last thing they want are a bunch of folks turning nickel into waste copper (at less cost with fewer problems).
Rossi's story of encountering Mob interference in his earlier work at reprocessing oil sounds very real ~ and in Italy they do have their connections with the government. In Italy, there've been lengthy periods of history where "the Mob" was, in fact, "the government". He moved to the US after that but he went to the fellows at Perugia for advice ~ seems they have a fair history in advanced physics ~ maybe someday we'll see the Italians roll out atom bombs eh!
The long and the short of it is AP is faced with reporting something done in a field (LENR) which will be denounced by the Fusionist cabal, the professional Environmentalists, and the Mob.
AP has no reputation for being courageous or brave in modern times. They might even be placing an order for an e-Cat to heat their headquarters, but you'll never hear about it from them.