After the Titans’ second third consecutive win Sunday:
"Pairing Chris Johnson and Vince Young in the same backfield is turning into a very potent combination." — Associated Press
"Vince Young is still Vince Young — an inconsistent performer who is at best a second-string quarterback in the NFL." — Scout.com
Anyhow, it’s nice to see them talking about you again, VY. Good luck.
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Posted in Texas Football
Tagged Associated Press, Chris Johnson, Scout dot com, Tennessee Titans, Vince Young
Reading of (not actually reading, I have better things to do) the NYTimes’ latest sneer at Sarah Palin reminded me of the above bit of their journalistic genius. What prognosticators they were and are! They condemn her lack of experience while they puffed Barry, the candidate with even less experience, and she was only running for vice president. Ah, but, you see, he was in the right party and he went to the right school.
The gang-on continues, with AP devoting eleven reporters to what Sarah said in her new book (which I ordered and expect to have this week). As she notes, eleven reporters could do a lot of important work, but… Naw, too hard.
Via Snoop at Simply Jews, who knows a crystal ball when he sees one. Heh.
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Associated Press, Barry, Going Rogue, New York Times, Obama, Obamalot, Power Line, Sarah Palin
Well, maybe they did back in the days of green eyeshades. I can remember a lot of uncorrected mistakes in the ’80s and ’90s. They certainly don’t hasten to balance their obvious bias anymore. Like most of the nation’s newsrooms, AP is staffed by liberals who vote Democrat. How could they not be when the journalism schools are liberal and a journalism degree has become the entry requirement?
Fox’s Hannity says Big Media’s obvious Barry-bias in the campaign just departed signified "the death of journalism," as in its credibility. But did it ever have any? Journalists have long been even less popular than lawyers. My old colleague Pantrypuff defends such partisan reporting as natural emotional involvement, but adds that newsrooms do not encourage innovation. They certainly don’t encourage political balance, either, despite pretending to be objective.
Via Lileks.
UPDATE: MSNBC, still in Barry’s bag. They can’t help themselves. It just comes bubbling out. And that’s why this media analyst thinks Big Media’s influence over presidential elections is over.
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Tagged Associated Press, Death of Journalism, I Hate Newspapers, James Lileks
According to the propagandists at Associated Press, anyhow, who set a new standard for bias.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, Mac gives Letterman-the-bore his biggest audience in three years. WUWT?
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Tagged AP/Yahoo poll, Associated Press, National Review Online
When I was a daily journalist I had to get used to Associated Press stealing a few paragraphs from my articles, slapping their own (frequently wrong) headline on the result and calling it journalism. It wasn’t their journalism. It really wasn’t mine, either, just parts of mine. But that was the way they did business. Still do, as far as I can tell, except now they’ve bought into (heck, they lead it sometimes) the Bush-bad, war-bad, economy-bad narratives. So I have to laugh when these frequently-inaccurate thieves threaten to sue over bloggers partially quoting from and linking to their stuff. This is probably the best solution: boycott ’em. This is a funny reply. This is a nice roundup. And this is worth thinking about. People in glass houses, etc.
Teflon Don sums up why only chumps rely on the Associated Press these days:
"Michael Yon provides pictures, video, grid coordinates and interviews to verify a mass grave, and the most definite news byte that the Associated Press will print is that mass graves ‘reportably‘ exist in Baqouba? That isn’t even up to the level of the common complaint that the media fails to report good news. That’s failing to report the bad news correctly…Blog the war, folks. It’s the only way you’ll learn anything."
Conversely, if you don’t want to know what’s happening in the war, because it might interfere with your political prejudices, stick with the AP.
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Tagged Associated Press, Iraq, mass grave in Baqouba, Michael Yon, Teflon Don
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