News or Editorial? AP Claims Trump 'Fearmongering Over Immigration'

October 31st, 2018 10:59 AM
When does the Associated Press consider an opinion piece on immigration to be straight news? According to an article posted on Tuesday morning, it’s apparently whenever it provides a chance to attack President Trump as “making another hardline immigration play” while “seeking to energize his supporters and help Republicans keep control of Congress.”

Clinton Camp Pushed Birtherism; AP Claims It's Still Trump's Problem

September 21st, 2016 6:52 AM
Investigative reporters at the Associated Press have occasionally come up with meaningful nuggets putting Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's conduct and record in a bad light. Examples include several scoops in the email/private-server scandal and its research finding that "More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of…

AP Buries Lede In Reporting on Latest Poll: Voters Favor Budget Cuts O

December 15th, 2011 12:21 PM
A new Associated Press poll finds movement by crucial swing voters towards Republican-friendly economic priorities: budget cuts over Democrat-preferred tax hikes. But in reporting on the news wire's poll, the AP's Laurie Kellman opened her story with a focus on numbers that show the  popularity of extending the Social Security payroll tax holiday, a priority of the Obama administration and…

Appalling Cartoon at Newspaper Guild Site Is Evidence That Its Members

April 14th, 2011 11:27 PM
The undisguised bias of a dispatch tonight by Associated Press reporter Laurie Kellman, with help from Scott Bauer, about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's appearance before a Congressional committee may have as its source two items found at the Newspaper Guild's web site (seen after the jump). One is an announcement relating to a possible deterioration in the Guild's negotiations with AP,…

Wait, I Thought It Was Over; AP Blurb Says Recession 'Will Likely Take

November 3rd, 2009 2:35 PM
Laurie Kellman, call your office, check your e-mail, and tap in to your Twitter. The Associated Press reporter didn't get the memo that recession is supposedly over, and that at a minimum you shouldn't be writing as if it will be with us for a while. She also erred in citing the weak economy as a bad thing for Democrats. The New York Times told us about a week ago that a bad economy is a good…

AP Howler: Snowe, Not Palin, Is 'Real GOP Maverick

October 14th, 2009 8:47 AM