AP: US had ‘heads up’ on destruction of Guardian hard drives
With the help of e-mails procured through the Freedom of Information Act, the Associated Press is reporting that U.S. intelligence officials knew about British intentions to secure the destruction of...
View ArticleNY Daily News, Associated Press fall for parody group on Brooklyn Bridge flag...
Above, the New York Daily News reports that a “pro-cycling group” had taken responsibility for having removed American flags atop the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge and replaced them with white flags....
View ArticleAssociated Press freaks out world with tweet about plane landing
Check out how easy it is to extract two meanings from this Associated Press tweet: BREAKING: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven. — The...
View ArticleAP honcho lists press-restricting ways of Obama administration
Back when she was executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson lamented that President Obama ran “the most secretive White House I have ever dealt with.” Bob Schieffer of CBS News stated,...
View ArticleHas the Department of Health and Human Services politicized FOIA requests?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is denying an allegation by a top Associated Press journalist that the agency has politicized the handling of requests under the Freedom of Information...
View ArticleWhite House press secretary says Post article is old news. Let’s have a look!
Just before midnight, The Post struck with another big investigative piece stemming from its scrutiny of the Secret Service. Titled “Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia,...
View ArticleThe Associated Press on how not to hype Ebola
One way to get people to worry about the Ebola virus is to report on “suspected” cases, reports of which have been on the increase, according to the Associated Press (AP). But don’t expect the wire...
View ArticleEbola-surviving journalist wanted to be ‘part of the solution’
In an interview with the Associated Press (AP), Ashoka Mukpo, 33, spoke about the suffering he endured after contracting Ebola in a trip to Liberia where he worked as a freelance cameraman for NBC...
View ArticleSharyl Attkisson’s computer intrusions and the Justice Department’s Inspector...
After former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson realized that her home and work computers were compromised, she faced a conundrum: Who to tell? “Can you really turn to the Justice Department’s FBI...
View ArticleAssociated Press slights, but doesn’t bombard, ‘war lingo’ in political coverage
In preparation for the midterm elections Tuesday, the Associated Press (AP) today issued guidance to editors at member news outlets on how to write about political campaigns. A couple of highlights:...
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