Posted on 12/03/2006 6:51:30 AM PST by baystaterebel
When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.
That’s when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. That’s when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete.
The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP.
Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge. He thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.
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"Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge."
More LIES from the LEFT. Credit should be given where credit is due.
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They are talking about his one particular issue with the AP of the false war crime stories.
I once had an old lady tell me if you read something in the newspaper it's the truth because they are not allowed to print anything that isn't true. I laughed !!!
I have a Toyota pick up 4wd with 400,000+ and it runs great.
The AP is infested with blowhard, babbling baboons.
At one time newsrooms were filled WW II vets, Korea vets and people who lived through the depression. They lived with their feet firmly planted on the ground.
Now we see moonbeam walkers, weeping metrosexuals and white morons who profess guilt about their racial identity in newsrooms.
At one newsroom I worked in the assistant editor hired his doppy daughter as a reporter. She wrote stuff like: See Spot. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run.
Total doggerel.
Her writing drove the city editor up the wall. Whenever he edited her crap we could hear him swearing. He'd near bite his cigar in half and his eyeballs would be popping out his head. He hated her, but he hated the nitwit assistant editor more. The woman was a total moron but the assistant editor was three times that.
This was the beginning of the end for newspapers. The twit female eventually quit and went on to get married and torture her husband. I think the unfortunate man moved on to become a mass murderer.
Anyway, AP is beyond saving. It's filled with dilletantes, fops and airheads confused about their species. Or as the city editor might say: F 'em all.
Thanks.
Lookee here, Martin!
I guess that would make us at FR the Un-Associated Press.
Excellent. I can say the same for watching my own family and friends be frustrated with their American cars & trucks; while my Hondas were amazingly low maintenance and very reliable. Then, when I went to sell each Honda; I was equally amazed at its resale value, as well.
Many of us realized decades ago that the entire "Mainstream Newsmedia" were delivering shoddy goods, dropped them like a bag of rancid potatoes, and found information elsewhere. It'll be a healthy day for all of us when the rest of the population wises up and does the same.
Lift up more rocks.
And yet, the masses insist on believing everything the media feeds them.
Go figure.
"But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it."
That also applies to public schools.
Every year a different sales rep tries to sell us a subscription to the local AP dominated rag. Every year I take the time to explain why I despise AP and encourage the rep to find easier work.
Your post made me LOL.
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.
It has to do with the AP’s Iraqi stringers and an oft-quoted Iraqi police captain named Jamil Hussein. Problem is, the Iraqi police say Capt. Hussein does not exist. The Iraqi police and U.S. military say an incident described in an AP report - Iraqi soldiers standing by as people were burned alive in a mosque - didn’t happen. Another AP-reported incident, U.S. soldiers shooting 11 civilians, also never happened, the military says.
When the AP was forced to acknowledge this situation, it did so in a story about a new Interior Ministry policy regarding false reports. The AP buried the fact that its own false report prompted this new policy.
The AP stands by its reporting.. The AP has cast “Capt. Jamil Hussein” simply as someone not authorized to speak, and AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll has sniffed morally: “Good reporting relies on more than government-approved sources.”
If newspapers don’t have an alternative, readers do. It’s called the Internet.
That’s why newspapers, if they don’t want to be dragged further into irrelevance and disrepute, have to tell The Associated Press they are dissatisfied with its product.
Getting The News From The Enemy, Update IV
http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/30/getting-the-news-from-the-enemy-iv/
bookmark ping-a-ling , & THANKS baystaterebel
. . . [ a very busy Sunday , back to this later ]
The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field.
It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem.
This is the point at which, another big American industry learned, people start buying Japanese.
But as an American newspaper, if you want to provide your readers with affordable regional, national and international news, you have to deal with the AP. If newspapers don’t have an alternative, readers do. It’s called the Internet.
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