#1. US papers, seeing profits fall like a stone in the Bush-2 Recession, are DROPPING the right-wing propaganda 'news' wire feed from AP 'News'!
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003840644
#2. Within a day or two of the story that more US papers are dropping AP, we see a textbook example of why: "Countdown" news show anchor Keith Olbermann, hosting much of MSNBC's coverage at the Democratic Primary Convention in Denver this past week, bashed AP 'news' 'reporter' CHARLES BABBINGTON's article on Senator Obama's acceptance speech as bearing no resemblence to the speech that fully FORTY MILLION AMERICANS tuned in to watch, to see IF American has a hope of digging itself out from the Bush-2 Recession and national security morass Bush, Cheney, Kark Rove, and the incompetent PNAC "WAR FIRST!" crew have gotten us in to over the past decade.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844063
August 29, 2008 12:20 AM ET, NEW YORK - In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles Babington an hour after Barack Obama had concluded his speech in Denver on Thursday night.
Olbermann was outraged that the AP's Babington had written, in his analysis of the speech, just off the wire, that Obama had tried nothing new and that his speech was lacking in specifics. He read the first few paragraphs on the air, lamented that it would be printed in hundred of newspapers on Friday, and concluded, "It is analysis that strikes me as having born no resemblance to the speech you and I just watched. None whatsoever. And for it to be distributed by the lone national news organization in terms of wire copy to newspapers around the country and web sites is a remarkable failure of that news organization.
"Charles Babington, find a new line of work."
Olberman even criticized the reporter on his time-keeping, noting that the article said the speech was 35 minutes long when it was, he said, actually 44 minutes long. A few minutes later, the AP copy showing up at news sites had been corrected to "44 minutes."
Even as Babington was hitting Obama for a lack of specifics, AP was transmitting a second piece by another reporter, Jim Drinkard, that offered a detailed look at seven specific policy proposals in the speech (and expressed doubts about all of them)
click here for E&P's original report on Keith Olbermann DEMOLISHING KNOCKING-OUT of Charles Babbington's misleading, outright LYING spin on the Democratic nominee's acceptance speech last night, including Babbington's misleading article in full - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844063
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