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December 8, 2006 -- THE most powerful media institution in all of human history is the Associated Press. Its news feed is ubiquitous - used, directly or indirectly, by every U.S. newspaper and TV news program and a vast number of foreign ones, too. AP maintains the largest world-wide coverage, and its reader base is nearly immeasurable. Unfortunately, and repeatedly of late, this behemoth has not only been getting it wrong - but increasingly refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. Instead, acting more like a politician or the mega-corporation that it is, the AP crew spins, obfuscates and attacks. Now they're...

If you want an earful, ask an American soldier how he feels about our news media. You will invariably hear an outpouring of dismay and outrage over antagonistic and reckless reporting. I have stacks of letters and e-mails from soldiers and their families sharing those frustrations. During the Vietnam War, those sentiments would get packed away -- private hurts to be silently borne for decades. But today the Internet allows front-line soldiers to disseminate their views -- breaking through the major media's entrenched, antimilitary bias -- in unprecedented ways. In the wake of Newsweek's publication of its unsourced, mayhem-inducing and...

I sent an email to ask why the bogus AP news story of "BOOS" was still on their web site. Below is my email and their response:My email:Subject: Are you reporting accurately? Why is it the article below (link provided) is still on your website when it contians an obvious retracted LIE? Have you corrected this bogus story? "Many in Bush's audience booed when Clinton's name was mentioned." http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=2257936 Thank you. Chris Here is the response:The AP corrected the story but we didn't. It shouldn't have happened and I'll work hard to make sure it doesn't happen again. A correction...

This installment of The American Enterprise is all about poor reporting. Unfortunately, there is enough of it out there that the issue was depressingly easy to put together. I'm not talking about media lies like those generated by Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was recently discovered to have simply fabricated dozens and dozens of stories, quotes, and facts--without the folks at his august employer ever figuring out that they had a pathological liar writing on their front pages. I'm talking about a much more endemic problem, a more permanent and serious trauma. I'm referring to the mistakes,...