It’s been decades since I took AP seriously.
The sooner they go broke the better for America.
Anything that can be done to hurry up their bankruptcy filing should be done.
They used to be liberal because of where they were educated. But they also used to be the gold standard for writing.
My wife was a reporter for 25 years. She still writes press releases and statements for a large company.
There isn’t a work day that goes by without her commenting on the absolute crap writing in news these days.
The business doesn’t attract the best any more. And those that are there are influenced heavily by social media. Believe it or not…as the old timers editors are retiring…its gonna get worse.
It’s not hard to figure out. The left took control of many of the universities in America. They churned out “journalists” and teachers who were indoctrinated. This was a feeder system of communists to the public school system and all levels of “news” reporting. As the years passed, with the indoctrination beginning K-12, the news media welcomed a flow of hardened communists.
Here we are.
AP was leftist garbage when I was a teenager—ya know back in the horse and buggy days....
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Who radicalized the Associated Press?
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either the redbeards of
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Rrrr-Democracy Pirate Party
Leftists have zero professionalism or civic responsibility.
They are totally intolerant.
AP fuels the “Idiot Wind”.
When, exactly, were they ever not?...................
1862?......................
Operation Mockingbird
The AP as well as ABCCBSCNNLATMSNBCNPRNYTPBSWP have been floaters in the leftist toilet for decades.
Karl Marx and Satan.
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Barack Obama The Quintessential Liberal Fascist by Kylie Anne Schiver
[[The Associated Press has morphed into a Berkeley-style left-wing rag]]
Says the left wing TDS hatefest site the hill.
Read “The Spike” by Arnaud de Borchgrave and R. Moss.
It was an eye opener about the press, even before the internet.
CNN actuslly started off as a conservative site from what I understan.d
No. In the 60s and70s the AP Stylebook was the gold standard for correct and unbiased news writing.
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Didn’t that old hag, Helen Thomas, work for AP?
The media were radicalized in the early 20th century during the progressive era. This includes the Associated Press.
https://librivox.org/public-opinion-by-walter-lippmann/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Newspaper
The use of stereotypes to persuade readers(and later listeners and viewers)of a specific narrative while putting on a mask of “objectivity” was developed during this era.