Does anyone has faith in what Associated Press reports as news?

Question

I have noticed that many news reports from Associated Press reporters are either complete lies or half truths twisted in the appropriate direction.

Is someone can collaborate, why many news networks take these reported news of the Associated Press correspondents for granted and present them as true facts? Maybe name "associated" entails some obligations to the associated?

Answer 1

Prove how they are false. Please, enlighten me for a moment with their "lies."

Yes, fabrication is always possible. But I've found, in most of the work I've done as a writer (including several pieces that have made their way to the AP) that the writers who do their work and do it well are ridiculed based on one bad performance of another writer. Get off your high horse and give the media a break.

What stories are false? The war stories? Local stories? Political? Election?  What?

It's not as if they're like the NYT or anything.

Answer 2

i completely agree!!  they are the most biased, agenda-based reports.  Thats what you get when the general US public likes "truth" to be spoonfed to them because too lazy to get off their asses and research a little on their own.

Answer 3

Perhaps we should have more faith in the National Inquirer? The ones who broke the John Edwards scandal?

Answer 4

I think they are starting to loose some degree of stout with their reporting.

Answer 5

at times

Answer 6

It's generally understood that AP's political reporting is usually skewed toward the Republicans.  Current Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier was recently embarrassed when an email he sent to Karl Rove went public (as a result of Congress covering the US Attorney appointments scandal).  In the email Fournier comes off as praising Rove for his use of the death of Pat Tillman for propagandistic purposes.

AP reporter Nedra Pickler has also been singled out for favoring Republicans to the detriment of Democrats in her coverage.  

Just an observation on my end.  AP's "news analysis" pieces, articles that should be printed on the op/ed page but aren't, are usually slanted toward the Republican side.  AP's straight news on political subjects usually features word choices that frame Democrats negatively and Republicans favorably.