In my view, given the above, I consider the AP to be following its political agenda and lying until proven otherwise.

In a far more serious update, it would appear AP is trying to cover up its tracks by rewriting its earlier articles to delete confirmation of burned bodies by morgue workers. Now, why would AP do this? The original version can still be found at the U…..

People don’t “clarify” coverups.

and though it’s been said
many times
many ways

The MSM’credability … iiiiiiiiisssssssssss sunnnnnnnnnnk…

CENTCOM says AP’s Iraqi police source isn’t Iraqi police — Part 21 — Continued from this post. Takeaway Points from Marc Danziger’s Post Patterico Marc Danziger’s post on Jam(a)il Hussein was pretty densely packed with information, and assume…

Why would the Associated Press try to change the record on a controversial story?…

In my last post, I mentioned an AP news release about Jamilgate that seemed to have disappeared. It’s back and well, well, well…. What have we here? Kind of curious that the AP has taken their response of Nov 28th……

faking photos?
staging photos?
stealth editing stories?
publishing inflamatory stories based on flimsy evidence and sketchy witnesses that could produce a murderous backlash?

And there are still people reading these stories, believing they are accurate.

The workers’ testimony only bolsters the AP’s case. Why would Daniszewski have omitted it? If it’s because he no longer felt confident they were telling the truth, why wasn’t a clarification issued?

Because it’s not about whether they were “telling the truth.” It’s about the “workers” being totally fabricated.

That would also explain why no clarification is possible.

The AP simply encourages closer inspection and rampant stories that will continue to increase until they simply admit THEY WERE WRONG. Thats all they have to do, admit it, stop being stubborn….

The “Open Season” video was apparently just the victim of a slow counter or updating lag or something. It now shows a lot more views. This isn’t a correction so much as a caveat. AllahPundit has read the AP’s allegedly-edited……

Cue Joe Wilson.

They’re not selling accuracy, they’re selling news.

pedestrian on December 19, 2006 at 3:03 PM

The key operative word here is “selling”. At the risk of offending the boss (and getting banned by Allah), I confess that whenever I hear anyone complain about “tabloid journalism,” my verbal “knee-jerk” reaction is swift and merciless. Usually, I say something like “Whaddaya mean, tabloid journalism? Don’t you know that IT’S ALL tabloid journalism? The differences are only a matter of degree.” Or is my level of cynicism over-the-top?