Associated Press

The Associated Press imagines itself a “news” organization. Ordinarily, “news” does not convey opinion, but only facts… at least that’s the ideal. That being the general understanding of what comprises news, it is interesting when we at Newsbusters find odd bits of opinion encased inside any particular AP “news” story. But, it is really odd to find a story that is predicated almost entirely on…

The Associated Press ran a story Wednesday entitled “Edwards Calls ‘War on Terror’ an Ideological Doctrine” (h/t LGF). Unfortunately, the author chose not to look into former Sen. John Edwards’ (D-North Carolina) past to see whether the presidential candidate had either referred to or supported this “ideological doctrine” himself.Had the AP done some homework, it would have found that not only…

Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs has identified a rather interesting phenomenon at Yahoo this morning.As the website reported on the results of a just-released Pew Research Center survey of Muslim Americans, the headline continued to change:One hour and 52 minutes ago, the headline was:Most U.S. Muslims reject suicide bombings.Thirty-five minutes ago, the same story was re-released:…

It has been over three weeks since the fundamental claim of the "Food Stamp Challenge" was debunked, first by Mona Charen in her syndicated column, then in more detail by yours truly (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog). Yet the "Food Stamp Challenge" has spread. As noted in this NPR report from April 23, it all started in Oregon. That state's governor, Ted Kulongoski, joined in and put on quite a…

If the six men charged with planning to attack Fort Dix a few weeks ago all had ties to mosques in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, would this be newsworthy?Well, America’s press outlets didn’t seem to think so, for with little exception, this bit of information went largely unreported.In fact, according to Google news and LexisNexis searches, the only major outlet to report both mosques…

There was a summit between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the European Union on Friday that yielded as little results as it did attention from America’s media.One of the issues on the table was whether Russia is going to provide more energy resources to EU nations starved for such.Didn’t hear about this?Well, that’s not surprising, for in the midst of the media’s ongoing attempts to…

Better strap yourself in for a dose of alternate reality, for a rock legend has actually come out against Al Gore’s upcoming concerts to promote global warming hysteria.Can’t be, you say?Well, Britain’s The Sun reported Saturday (h/t Glenn Reynolds):THE WHO's ROGER DALTRY [sic] has blasted the big Wembley gig Gore is organising to raise awareness of global warming.Shocked? There’s much more,…

The Formerly Mainstream Media is favorably transfixed on the proposed immigration "reforms" being whipped through Congress -- legislation that opponents characterize as "amnesty." "Somehow," they have managed to virtually ignore immigration-related legislation that has actually become law in Oklahoma. Perhaps it's because Oklahoma's reforms have nothing to do with "amnesty," and everything to do…

Have you seen the picture on the right showing a Shell station in San Francisco with gas prices in excess of $4 per gallon? Well, there’s only one problem with it: this isn’t close to indicative of what gas prices are in the Bay Area. Not even close.Yet, the following was captioned next to this Associated Press picture at Yahoo Thursday (h/t NB reader Brian Mortimer, emphasis added):High gas…

Perhaps you read this week that in April, the US Treasury reported all-time-record tax collections of $383.6 billion. If you did, you didn't read it in the dead-trees version of the New York Times. The Old Grey Lady did not deem Thursday afternoon's news "fit to print" on Friday (requires free registration), even choosing not to carry the related Associated Press report that is the main topic of…