AP's Castro Can't Hold In Bias (and Perhaps Ignorance) in Report on Te

Tom Blumer
May 22nd, 2010 12:19 AM
It would not surprise me if the Associated Press's April Castro has spent the last 10 weeks gritting her teeth non-stop. In March (covered at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), she was clearly peeved at the Texas State Board of Education. In a supposedly objective news story entitled "Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences," she decried a "faction" (actually a nearly two-thirds majority) of…
 

Texas Social Studies Curriculum Vote Brings Out Worst in AP Bias, Labe

Tom Blumer
March 12th, 2010 11:16 PM
April Castro and the headline writers at the supposedly "objective" Associated Press are obviously not pleased with changes the Texas State Board of Education made to the Lone Star State's social studies curriculum. Castro's report (HT to an NB e-mailer) makes almost no attempt to hide her clear disdain. She includes references to a "far-right faction" (a "faction" that happened to constitute a…