Posted on 11/21/2009 12:38:13 PM PST by rface
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News wire feeling ire over Palin (Fact checking the AP)
NY Post ^ | November 20, 2009 | ANDY SOLTIS
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 6:30:10 AM by maggief
EXCERPT
AP wouldn’t say how many reporters are typically assigned to fact-check. The agency has roughly 3,000 employees for news gathering. Palin supporters said she was being unfairly targeted for scrutiny.
(AP’s director of media relations, Paul)Colford said AP didn’t fact-check Obama’s two books, for example, because “neither of those books were published when he was a major player on the scene.”
His latest book was published in 2006, as he was being mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
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Obama shrugs off hype - Spending most of his time on issues close to home, senator-elect says talk of him running for president is ‘silly’
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) -
Monday, November 15, 2004
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROCKFORD (AP) - In the days since he was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has chatted by phone with President Bush, had his picture in People magazine and appeared several times on national television.
He’s also been quizzed by 17-year-old Abby Longbottom, who joined her senator-elect in the stuffy basement of the Rockford Public Library to hear him talk about after-school programs.
Such is the life of the nation’s only black senator, who comes to Washington wearing the label of the Democratic Party’s great hope but promising only to work for the folks back home.
“I have not taken the hype too seriously,” Obama said after bidding farewell to his colleagues in the Illinois Legislature last week.
But the limelight continues to seek out Obama , who became a political star after a rousing address at the Democratic National Convention.
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* Hardcover: 384 pages * Publisher: Crown; 1St Edition edition (October 17, 2006)
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Obama ‘s fame renews interest in his book - A new edition of ‘ Dreams From My Father ‘ is due out Aug. 10
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) -
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. ( AP ) - The surge of interest in Barack Obama after his speech to the Democratic National Convention is spilling over to the book he wrote a decade ago, with a first edition copy going for $255 on eBay and pre-release orders for a new edition already putting it on best-seller lists.
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” Dreams From My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance” is Obama ‘s memoir of growing up in Hawaii the son of a black man and white woman. He discusses trying to come to grips with his racial identity, a period of rebellion that included drug use, traveling to Africa and becoming a community activist in Chicago.
It was published in 1995 to strong reviews but only modest sales. Obama said 15,000 copies were printed, and he still has several boxes of them.
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, decided to reissue the book after Obama won the Illinois Democratic Senate primary in March. Then he delivered a keynote address that thrilled Democrats, and interest in the book took off.
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This would a perfect time and example to force the issue. Its insane that people can’t quote from articles and its being done to stifle people at sites like FR. Other sites do it and nothing is said or done. jmo
AP = Always Pimping
I just cannot imagine how someone could rip a book apart at its spine.
Something is wrong with these people that could do such a think to a book.
It's time to buy Sarah's book.
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Shamelessness and hypocrisy are PREREQUISITES for qualification as a leftist or left wing organization. The AP is yet again showing us who they are.
Just finished it...wonderful book!
What do you make of the Barbara Walters, Sarah Palin interview that was to be on 20/20 last evening? Did you watch? It did not happen! ... instead they made a comment about the upcoming interview; and then showed a murder crime for about 46 minutes ... then they had a short segment of Sarah and Trig ... maybe 6 to 7 minutes, then they went to Janet Jackson and the up coming new record being released and then the scheduled interview with Janet regarding Michael's death to be broadcast in the next weeks on 20/20.
I was very amazed by the censoring (by not showing it) of most all of Sarah's interview. Obama has called her dangerous ... which might be the reason for the decision.
BIG MISTAKE. MO.
Yes, right on. One day, even the brain dead among us may learn that we really are at odds with our own government and they don’t intend to play nice-nice.
The Associated Press has essentially claimed there is no such thing as 'fair use' when it comes to quoting its articles or reprinting its headlines, but when the news organization scans an entire book, then fair use does indeed exist.
And about to become more so. They just recently laid off a lot of people and there’s been a change of leadership over there which has brought in individuals of less than sterling character who are happy to surrender any vestige of objectivity in favor of the politicians they like.
They savored every minute. Of that I have no doubt. If they could round up every single copy and incinerate them, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
I noticed that too. They had her interview in what was supposed to be 3 parts, Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline, and then the FULL interview on 20/20 in case people missed the interviews throughout the week. Instead they showed some murder for FORTY SIX MINUTES..I was like “OH COME ON ARE U KIDDING ME” then they finally devote 9 minutes to Sarah’s interview and Babs said “You can watch the full interview on abc.com/palin” YES Obama and his cronies got to them, because the World News Tonight portion of the interview was about policy and Obama did not want people to hear Sarah bash his administration. Instead they showed some awesome clips of Trig and then got into Levi(WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT HIM, HIS 15 MINUTES OF FAME ARE OVER)
Also, my book NEVER came. I ordered it through amazon.com, it was supposed to come yesterday via usps(Didnt Obama say he will make health care like the post office) and it never came. Either someone stole it or it got lost. It never moved out of Las Vegas, just froze there. So yeah, USPS can’t even deliver a book on time. So now amazon will send me another book but this time from UPS with no charge.
Actually, this would be a copyright violation. You can’t copy whole books in this way. If they wanted 12 copies of the books you have to buy 12 copies. Otherwise schools could buy one copy of a textbook and copy it for every student.
>> The problem is not with the fact that the AP did this,
No, that is the problem. It’s a commercial product.
Sarah should be suing them. We should dismiss their demand FR not use AP stories and quote this as our excuse to do so.
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