Associated Press
3000-Pound Granite Marker Now Honors Obamas' First Kiss
August 17th, 2012 8:14 AM
From the Obama Adoration Department: AP reports the managers of a shopping center in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood installed a 3,000-pound granite marker this week complete with a plaque reading, "On this site President Barack Obama first kissed Michelle Obama."
They’ve said the first kiss came in 1989 and the Obamas will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in October.
Journolist Redux? AP's Peoples and Politico's Summers Write Oddly Simi
August 16th, 2012 11:51 AM
Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted how the Associated Press's Steve Peoples and Politico's Juana Summers could only find hundreds of people attending GOP vice-presidential pick Paul Ryan's Wednesday appearance at Oxford, Ohio's Miami University. Perhaps even more troubling is how they somehow chose an odd angle for their coverage, namely that Ryan has supposedly avoiding…
AP, Politico Claim Ryan Rally Attended by 'Hundreds,' Local Reports Sa
August 16th, 2012 11:12 AM
UPDATE: In its video report, but not in its accompanying text, Cincinnati Local 12 News reported that the crowd was over 6,000, and that "a whole line of people were turned away, because there wasn't enough room."
It would appear that Politico's Juana Summers and the Associated Press's Steve Peoples have an unusual and nearly identical problem with math. Yesterday, they could have and should…
AP Again Treats Govt. Spending in GDP Report as Same as All Govt. Spen
August 15th, 2012 11:53 PM
There are so many holes in Paul Wiseman's Wednesday report at the Associated Press on the weakness of the current "recovery" that it would take a term paper to cover all of them. I'll just concentrate on a repeat error Wiseman made. It is one which AP colleagues Christopher Rugaber (with Wiseman, as demonstrated here) and Martin Crutsinger (as shown here) have also committed. All three…
Shooting at Family Research Council: First AP Report Brings Up Chick-f
August 15th, 2012 1:42 PM
(UPDATED: The Washington Post reports "A law enforcement official said at one point in the scuffle, the shooter expressed views that differed from those of the Family Research Council. The official also said the shooter was carrying a bag that had a Chick-Fil-A bag inside." NBC Washington identified the suspect as Floyd Corkins, 28.)
There was a shooting Wednesday morning at the Family…
UPDATE: AP Corrects Aug. 10 Claim on Timing of Obama’s Promise to Cu
August 14th, 2012 6:15 PM
Late this this afternoon, the Associated Press made a correction to Christopher Rugaber's August 10 story on July's federal budget results. His original claim, noted on August 11 by yours truly at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog, was that Barack Obama's promise to cut the deficit in half was something "he pledged to do during his 2008 campaign."
As noted in my original post and its mirror, the…
AP's Writeup on Expiration of Facebook 'Lock-up' Period Fails to Note
August 14th, 2012 3:12 PM
In her story this aftermoon on the imminent expiration of the company's "lock-up" period during which certain employees and insiders must hold onto their company stock, Associated Press Technology writer Barbara Ortutay reports that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be locked into his holdings until mid-November -- while omitting out of apparent ignorance the fact that he previously cashed…
AP Ties Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio to 'Convicted Drug Dealer
August 14th, 2012 11:38 AM
AP couldn’t let Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio hand out juice at a campaign event in Miami without connecting them to cocaine. What? David Fischer’s story was headlined “Host for Romney event is a convicted drug dealer.” It began: “Mitt Romney held a campaign event Monday evening at a Miami juice shop owned by a convicted cocaine trafficker.”
In 1995, cocaine trafficker Jorge Cabrera gained…
Heavy-Handed AP: 'Steel Mill Polluted Town as Romney Firm Profited
August 13th, 2012 4:31 PM
For months, the liberal media have viciously attacked Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital in every way imaginable. From calling him a job killer (or parroting Obama super PAC claims that the Republican is an actual killer) to a corporate raider, the left has gone to new lengths to smear Governor Romney’s past, something President Obama never endured during his 2008 campaign for president.…
AP's Rugaber Erroneously Claims Obama's Pledge to Cut Deficit in Half
August 11th, 2012 9:18 AM
UPDATE: The AP has corrected its story. The related NewsBusters post is here.
In his coverage of the latest Monthly Treasury Statement showing July and year-to-date federal budget deficits of $69.6 billion and $974 billion, respectively, Christopher Rugaber at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, cut President Obama a significant break when he wrote that "GOP candidate Mitt…
AP's Fahey Worries That High Gas Prices Might 'Put Pressure' on Obama
August 11th, 2012 7:56 AM
Friday afternoon, the Associated Press's Jonathan Fahey couldn't get four paragraphs into his report on higher gas prices nationwide without starting to fret about their impact on President Obama's re-election effort.
He also wanted readers to understand without any doubt that President Obama and the by inference his government bear absolutely no responsibility for the recent run-up to a…
Media Use Phony Contraception Mandate 'Compromise' to Dismiss Obama Wa
August 10th, 2012 4:13 PM
On Thursday, several media reports used Obama campaign talking points to downplay a new Romney campaign ad that accused the President of a "war on religion" following the ObamaCare contraception mandate that would force religious institutions to cover birth control in employee health insurance plans.
Articles for The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal all touted the…
AP Report on West Coast Gas Prices Moving to $4 a Gallon Ignores How T
August 10th, 2012 8:48 AM
Last time I checked the Associated Press was a national news service.
So in a story about how a refinery fire in California will likely cause West Coast gas prices to hit $4 a gallon, why did reporter Jason Dearen ignore the fact that prices are already at $4 a gallon in many parts of the country already?
'Arab Spring' Update: Muslim Brotherhood Accused of Attempting to Cont
August 9th, 2012 8:08 AM
Let's see if this story gets any meaningful attention in the U.S., or if the Associated Press expands the brief unbylined item currently seen at its national site. I wouldn't bet on it -- and even if that occurs, I don't expect the U.S. establishment press to give what is contained therein much notice.
The AP's four-paragraph blurb tells us that independent columnists in Egypt are alarmed at…