Posted on 07/22/2013 9:00:06 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. (AP) - Announcement was made today that the board of directors of the Associated Press at a recent meeting held "that government can not engage in newscasting without creating the fear of propaganda which necessarily would reflect upon the objectivity of the news services from which such newscasts are prepared." The text:
"The Associated Press stands committed to the principle of freedom of access to the news and to the free flow of news throughtout the world.
It holds that news thus disseminated by nongovernmental news agencies is essential to the highest development of mankind and to the perpetuation of peace between nations. It recognized the possibility of useful purpose served by governments in the maintenance throughout the world of official libraries of information. It applauds the vigorous manner in which the present national administration has advanced in the doctrine of press freedom. It holds however that government can not engage in newscasting without creating the fear of propaganda which necessarily would reflect upon the objectivity of the news services from which such newscasts are prepared."
sometimes the jokes just write themselves, especially on the heels of the death of Helen T...
Perhaps they're concerned because obozo has this guy at the top of his list of folks to run the operation:
You are quite welcome, and it only goes to show I spend way too much time on the computer. : )
. . . government can not engage in newscasting without creating the fear of propaganda which necessarily would reflect upon the objectivity of the news services from which such newscasts are prepared."True. Unfortunately, news broadcasting which is licensed and given the imprimatur of the government (in the form of the FCC) is exactly the same thing.
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