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The AP Changes "Boos" to "Ooohs" in Report on Bush and Clinton
Editor & Publisher ^ | 3 September 2004 | E&P Staff

Posted on 09/03/2004 9:40:17 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper

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To: Chaffer
They can't get away with this stuff anymore

In a way, they did get away with it. Sure, FReepers are complaining about it. I've seen no mea culpa from the AP. I've seen no mainstream coverage of this outright distortion of fact. We won't see it. At best, the AP will issue a wire retraction/update of the story (to which Drudge has alluded). No mainstream paper is obliged to carry such a retraction, nor will one, IMHO. The people who've already been influenced by this story will not have their ill-gotten influence corrected. It's AP SOP, FWIW. :)
61 posted on 09/04/2004 1:21:33 AM PDT by andyk
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To: BigSkyFreeper
This is so much reminding me of a movie which I can't think of the name of in which some media mogul sets up a plan to rule the world through murder, intimidation and media manipulation of facts. Right at the coup de grace it all blows up on the mogul from all sides.
62 posted on 09/04/2004 1:28:20 AM PDT by John Lenin (How can you shoot women and children? Easy... you don't lead 'em so much(FMJ))
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To: BigSkyFreeper

The leftist media simply lies.


63 posted on 09/04/2004 1:48:52 AM PDT by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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To: SarahW
Even if it was a stringer in Wisconsin reporting back to NYC, the bureau chiefs in NYC would see such short snippets as "UPDATE: Bush wishes Clinton speedy recovery", "UPDATE: Crowd reacts with 'ooohs'", etc., etc.

Stringers do not write complete stories, they string it out over the wire for those back at the bureau to take those strings of information and tie together into cognitive sentences and paragraphs suitable for print.

64 posted on 09/04/2004 1:56:40 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I agree.


65 posted on 09/04/2004 8:37:06 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: SarahW
There was no booing according to eyewitnesses, none on the audio tapes or video. If there was any bad behaviour it was de minimis and one would hardly expect President Bush to notice it over the cheers, since nobody else can.

I know. And more egregious than even the booing lie was the tacking on of the snotty "President Bush did nothing to stop them". The image that is intended to create in the reader's mind makes me sick.

66 posted on 09/04/2004 9:11:27 AM PDT by cyncooper
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