And One Wonders Why The AP Appears Biased
Reading this ‘analysis’ by the Associated Press’ White House reporter, Ben Feller, makes it perfectly clear why AP articles about the White House, George W. Bush, domestic policies, etc. often seem biased against Republicans; the correspondent think so little of Bush that his ‘analysis’ is not much better than the average blogpost published at the Daily Kos.
I am not even going to quote from the ‘analysis.’ It is such a piece of crap, pardon the language, that I do not wish to spend valuable space at PoliGazette repeating the words written by a journalist who forgets who he is, and what he should do. If you want to read it, and I suggest you do, I advise you to simply click on the link above. It will only take you a minute or two.
But those two minutes are quite valuable; they make perfectly clear why it is that old fashioned journalists often believe they - and people like them - should not write columns. It jeapordizes their main job; objective reporting. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine Feller going back to his work and honestly reporting about what happens in the White House, without any bias whatsoever.
Then again, Feller’s ‘analysis’ is probably part of the new direction at the AP; ‘reporting and opinion’ in one.
I believe that websites and organizations that do that are called blogs. Is the AP trying to become a somewhat different kind of blog? Is that what they are doing?
The Associated Press: Why go to townhall.com or Daily Kos when we provide your daily dose of opinionated reporting?