[MaineRepublic]

Well, the AP fiasco is getting some press. But I still see the original lie going out making it out there.

Do not let this die people.

[mewzilla]

But AP is still refusing to name the reporter of their anonymous hit piece, aren't they?

[Dustbunny]

Believe none that you read and half of what you see.

[The Anti-Democrat]

NewsMax (dated 7:32 a.m., Sept. 4) still says "Boos" even though the AP story was corrected yesterday afternoon.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/4/73347.shtml

[Always Right]

NewsMax is running the old version of the story

[CharlotteVRWC]

The next thing to make the AP fix, is there lack of term 'terrorists' being used in the Russian Tragedy.
All I see are the terms Rebels and Militants and Separatists...

[Thickman]

Thanks to Freepers like you blatent media bias like this does get exposed. Unfortuneately, it only the blatent incidents that can be clarified and impacted. We are unable to do anything about the thousands of subtle and not so subtle stories and reports that eminate from the MSM on a daily basis.

Keep up the good work. Keeping fighting the good fight. The internet is gaining more power and persuasion with the truth squad from Freeper Land.

[tenuredprof]

Perhaps the RNC should hold a press conference where they play the audio tape.

[freeangel]

I'm still waiting for someone in the MSM to do a story on why the internet is the reason they can't get away with lies anymore.

[Ed_in_NJ]

I guess we could say that AP "did a flip-flop?"

[pray4liberty]

Several Web sites revealed that AP "retracted" the report "citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction."

Now that we're caught, we have to backpedal over that cattle dung.

[lentulusgracchus]

Man, I wish there were an absolutely reliable, semantic-savvy, propaganda-savvy, dry-eyed "Consumer Reports" for Big Media political propaganda in the U.S. So far only a few people like Reed Irvine and Brent Bozell are out there, but they're conservatives and so people discount them.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is pretty much up-the-middle, but she confines herself to discussing message from the campaigns, and she's just an occasional guest on The Newshour. She needs to have a supporting organization like Media Research Center at her elbow, working on media presentation of issues so that she can expand out from just analyzing parties' and candidates' platforms and messages for content and identifying their various appeals. The poisoning of the information well with press campaigning and advocacy journalism is what needs early and comprehensive attention. So far the best thing I've seen is Lying in Ponds:

Media Bias: Lying in Ponds.

[Brian Mosely]

Check out this comment that was just posted to my blog:

Boy, you wingnuts are whiny little bitches, aren't you?

Do you think that anyone is going to believe a bunch of right-wing moonbats like Freepers? Give me a break.

Why don't you anti-American extremists stop looking for conspiracy theories under every rock and start acknowledging the fact that your ideology is not only incompatible with America's history but antithetical to common sense and common decency?

Your shrill, paranoic cries of "media bias" make you look like simpletons--but since you're wingnuts, I guess that's appropriate.
# posted by SMD : 7:22 AM

And my response:

"Do you think that anyone is going to believe a bunch of right-wing moonbats like Freepers?"

Well, SMD...since Editor and Publisher, America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry, has posted a piece on it at: http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000624935

I'd have to say that's a yes. Nice try, though.
# posted by bkm : 7:28 AM

I guess denial isn't just a river in Egypt after all...

[TalBlack]

Several Web sites revealed that AP "retracted" the report "citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction."

Pretty embarassing that reporters for a big news syndicate don't have the ability to characterize a crowds reaction. Have they been fired?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[OldFriend]

I sent them an email. Told them I had no idea Michael Moore was writing their wire stories.

On the other hand.......when I first heard the news on the radio about X42, they characterized it as the man having had a heart attack. I was shocked and felt immediate sympathy for Chelsea.

After watching mrs. grifter use the opportunity to make a remark about health care I abandoned all sympathy for the man.

[steveegg]

Update to the original story (including digging out the name of the Clymer who wrote the "boos" for the AP, Tom Hays) PING.

[G.Mason]

"In a dispatch sent to subscribers in early afternoon, the AP reported that when Bush, at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, told the crowd that he wished to send Clinton his "best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery," the audience "of thousands booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
Pretty damning, except that AP soon changed its story, only after the original appeared on many Web sites.

Several Web sites revealed that AP "retracted" the report "citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction."

The new version moved on the wire Friday described the same incident this way, after relating Bush's remarks:

The crowd reacted with applause and with some boos, whereby Bush immediately jumped down from the podium and proceeded to beat the living Hell out of every old lady in the front row, until restrained by the Secret Service.

[Rebelbase]

....And Bush did nothing to stop them!

[steveegg]

Thanks for the updates. It's been a rather hot story around these parts, both on the state board and on local radio.

[John Thornton]

Do a Google news search on "Clinton boo Bush" and write to the websites that are reprinting this garbage. Here is one: http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=2257936

[syriacus]

How very ironic that, just this morning, C-Span aired a show "Politics and the Internet" (from 8/24/04). Dan Gillmor, of The Mercury News said Drudge is now taken "with a grain of salt" because of his reporting of the alleged Kerry affair.

Will people now take the AP with "a grain of salt"?