[Psycho_Bunny]

If you REALLY want to see examples of 'name-dropping' go to the AP hotwire site and start running searches in their last five years of archives.

It's very revealing of exactly how astonishingly bias AP truly is.

I did it about a year ago and posted the results at FR. At that time, the AP search engine returned a max of 475 AP article hits. One of the criteria I remember running was “Conservative Legal” and “Liberal Legal”

The former garnered the full 500 returns but the latter returned something like 45.

Which is astonishing when you stop to think of how often the ACLU is in the news.

You ALWAYS see “…conservative legal group, Landmark Legal…” but you NEVER see “…liberal legal group, ACLU…”

Remember: Liberals are pigs in pigs’ clothing.

[subterfuge]

Absolutely brilliant article. I learned something today.

[philman_36]

You might've consider titling it "Name Calling" or even "The Name Game". Name dropping, per se, might be considered bad manners or bad taste, but calling someone a name expressing a distinct bias, and to get a desired reacton where no desire should be to start with, is a worse situation.
The media has to instill the desired impact or reaction upon the public early on in the article, thus the need for "name calling". I think more folks understand that these days.
Nevertheless...good article, IMO.

[cmsgop]

You are such a great writer Merc!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hey, you have the same name as the website you sourced!

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent, excellent essay. Bravo.

[HighWheeler]

Here is your ping we talked about last night.

[Bella_Bru]

Wow! Anna, this is most excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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