Comments on: The swamp that is the AP http://www.yourish.com/2005/09/30/144 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Joel http://www.yourish.com/2005/09/30/144/comment-page-1#comment-403 Joel Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:07:05 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=144#comment-403 The A.P. like its British cousin Reuters - reflexively looks for an anti-Israel angle even when there is none in the story. The A.P. like its British cousin Reuters – reflexively looks for an anti-Israel angle even when there is none in the story.

]]> By: Paul M http://www.yourish.com/2005/09/30/144/comment-page-1#comment-401 Paul M Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:18:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=144#comment-401 Meryl, Sometimes, I think, you (as in "we") can try too hard to find problems that aren't there. It's tempting with AP, and all the rest of the pack, because they are so often so obviously biased - but this time I think you are reading things into their reporting. It's a matter of opinion, of course, and you may be right and I wrong. Regardless, you should have faith in the majority of Americans, at least, to read that paragraph and see claims of Israeli or US conspiracy for the stupid lies and blame-shifting they are. I don't think it is a bad thing to remind the public of what so much of the Muslim world is trying to peddle. Meryl,

Sometimes, I think, you (as in “we”) can try too hard to find problems that aren’t there. It’s tempting with AP, and all the rest of the pack, because they are so often so obviously biased – but this time I think you are reading things into their reporting.

It’s a matter of opinion, of course, and you may be right and I wrong. Regardless, you should have faith in the majority of Americans, at least, to read that paragraph and see claims of Israeli or US conspiracy for the stupid lies and blame-shifting they are. I don’t think it is a bad thing to remind the public of what so much of the Muslim world is trying to peddle.

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