Originally Posted By: BASAMS The Plumber
you dont think the honeymoon is over?


 Originally Posted By: the G-man of Zur-En-Arrh

Not at the Associated Press. According to an editorial in the Wall St Journal:
  • After spending the Bush years as a voice of opposition, American journalists have by and large turned on a dime and become cheerleaders for the man in power.

    A case in point is the Associated Press, perhaps the nation's premier "straight news" outfit. During the Bush years, the AP introduced a new reportorial idiom called "accountability journalism," whose goal is "to report whether government officials are doing the job for which they were elected and keeping the promises they make." Turns out they weren't.

    But the AP's new idiom, which we hereby name "pliability journalism," aims to show that everything is completely different from the bad old days of a week ago and before.


The whole editorial is rather long but the upshot is that the Associated Press is editorializing in its various "news" stories about how Obama "Breaks From Bush, Avoids Divisive Stands," creates "an opening for improved relations after eight combative years under President George W. Bush" and even that "Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table...bodes well for the nation's food policy. While former President George W. Bush rarely visited restaurants and didn't often talk about what he ate, Obama dines out frequently and enjoys exploring different foods."


The New York Times reports that the Associated Press will distribute stories from four leftist nonprofits in addition to its own liberal reporting:
  • Starting on July 1, the A.P. will deliver work by the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University (cranks out many of the FMSM journalists), the Center for Investigative Reporting, and ProPublica to the 1,500 American newspapers that are A.P. members, which will be free to publish the material.

    The A.P. called the arrangement a six-month experiment that could later be broadened to include other investigative nonprofits, and to serve its nonmember clients, which include broadcast and Internet outlets.