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AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014
apnews.myway ^ | dec. 22, 2014 | DAVID CRARY

Posted on 12/22/2014 9:31:53 AM PST by PROCON

NEW YORK (AP) — The police killings of unarmed blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere — and the investigations and tumultuous protests they inspired — was the top news story of 2014, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

In a year crowded with dramatic and often wrenching news developments around the world, the No. 2 story was the devastating outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, followed by the conflict in Iraq and Syria fueled by the brutal actions of Islamic State militants.

Among the 85 voters casting ballots, first-place votes were spread among 15 different stories. The Ferguson entry received 22 first-place votes, Ebola 11 and the Islamic State story 12.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; americanpravda; asspress; buttociatedpress; dnctalkingpoints; mediabias; obamalegacy; orwelliannightmare; police; revisionisthistory
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To: PROCON
AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014

Gee, imagine that.

I guess they missed this one:


41 posted on 12/22/2014 11:19:00 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Yeah, they missed a lot; but that’s why they are the Ememedia..


42 posted on 12/22/2014 11:21:42 AM PST by PROCON (Merry CHRISTmas!!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Thanks, Mikey. Great pic.


43 posted on 12/22/2014 12:03:51 PM PST by CDB ("Not my problem"--Baraq Hussein Obama (um, um, um))
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To: CDB
Thank You!

the Blazing Series...Continues...




44 posted on 12/22/2014 12:09:07 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: PROCON

How about Black crime on Blacks and/or Black crime on Whites. It took Obama being elected President for me to really question Black mentality in America.


45 posted on 12/22/2014 1:00:01 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: TomGuy

100x death’s in Chitcago and yet not a peep from the American Pravda ...


46 posted on 12/22/2014 2:11:21 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: PROCON

Blacks killing blacks should be the major concern in the
country today!


47 posted on 12/22/2014 2:20:45 PM PST by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: CaptainMorgantown

You said...
“Remember that this was a poll of news reporters and editors of what they classify as important.”

Right you are.

But the title is misleading. It implies a poll of Americans


48 posted on 12/22/2014 2:37:56 PM PST by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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To: PROCON

“...according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

I thought I would try to cheer you up. There is more of America left than you think. Editors and news directors don’t really represent America, who are all like peas in a pod. The smallest TV market in the country is run by the same mindset as the New York Times.


49 posted on 12/22/2014 3:19:21 PM PST by odawg
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To: PROCON

oh, who, to is to blame?


50 posted on 12/22/2014 3:53:02 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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Time, but when they come running back ... Time is on my Side ...


51 posted on 12/22/2014 3:55:00 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: PROCON

Like I am surprised


52 posted on 12/22/2014 4:13:45 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: wideawake

I know most of who they are.
They go quiet when facts like cops are killed but then wait a day or two and then they come back on posting about a cop shooting a dog bla bla.

They know they are not conservatives or right minded, we now that too. We all know that the trolls who have been blasting police on here for two months will carry on making themselves look fools.

Those trolls belong on DU or KOS and we all know that but again just wait for the usual dog shooting posts coming soon if not already.


53 posted on 12/22/2014 4:16:52 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SkyPilot

Thanks for that, I will be using that stat.


54 posted on 12/22/2014 4:19:52 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: PROCON

Yep....... If indeed lies from presstitutes, pandering punks and polidiots prevail as top stories then professional journalism is dead.

Turned off my TV in 2008 so had to download the grand jury testimony on the ferguson punk..... all 4799 pages of the PDF to see he wasn’t murdered.

Top story was a work of fiction stirred to inflame idiots IMHO.

My opinion....


55 posted on 12/22/2014 5:25:29 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: PROCON
I heard Rush just mentioned it and had to look. My America no longer exists.

I think it died a while ago, unfortunately. Damn it!

56 posted on 12/22/2014 8:34:15 PM PST by rhubarbk (Cruz/Gowdy 2016)
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To: windcliff
MH370 was CNN’s top story for months.


57 posted on 12/23/2014 3:07:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: reaganaut1
How many police killings of blacks and non-blacks have there been in 2014 compared to previous years?

It's probably too early to get stats on 2014.

44% of people killed by police (1980-2012) were white.

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-13690-deadly-force-in-black-and-white.html

And the data in the above (and often cited) 'research' is admittedly flawed (the researchers were trying to make the case that black people are 21 times more likely to be killed).

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/john-lott-dangerous-distortions-cops-shooting-black-men-article-1.2030545

58 posted on 12/23/2014 3:17:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: JudyinCanada

the Ferguson story of the unarmed man is the top story of 2014 only problem the title is wrong it should read “a thug who just robbed a store assault the store owner and the disobeyed a police officer the assaulted a police officer attempted to take his gun and even after being shot continued to come at the officer and WAS RIGHTFULLY SHOT’ that how it should read ...the whole hands up protest is a lie NEVER HAPPENED


59 posted on 12/23/2014 5:10:15 AM PST by mangomadness819
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To: PROCON

Why not?

We got a fake President and now we have fake stories about fake civil right issues.


60 posted on 12/23/2014 5:38:41 AM PST by R0CK3T
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