AP Becoming Agency for Iraqi Insurgents

Jules Crittenden commits the crime of journalism at the Boston Herald on a frequent basis, something his fellow-hacks at the Boston Globe rarely if ever permit themselves the liberty of indulging.

Jules reveals the Associated Press's knowingly [unless the senior AP brass is totally a bunch of nitwits, which also might be the case] publishing accounts of questionable events implicating US forces in what might be contrued to be criminal activity, or even war crimes. Jules says it better:

The AP, of course, has been delivering unbalanced reports about U.S. national politics for some time, as when President Bush, whom AP reporters despise, is barely allowed to state his case on an issue before his critics are given twice as much space to pummel him. The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem.

And this factory of enemy propaganda has a monopoly in the US mainstream media, which is already susceptible to liberal and ultra-left lies and prevarications because of its ideological imbalance toward the far left.

This is the point at which, another big American industry learned, people start buying Japanese. But as an American newspaper, if you want to provide your readers with affordable regional, national and international news, you have to deal with the AP. If newspapers don’t have an alternative, readers do. It’s called the Internet. That’s why newspapers, if they don’t want to be dragged further into irrelevance and disrepute, have to tell The Associated Press they are dissatisfied with its product.

The internet, talk radio, and FNC are the only alternatives to the Ministry of Truth which grinds out disinformation, misinformation, and lies on an alarmingly vigorous timetable.

The other day I saw the pious fraud Marvin Kalb pontificating on C-Span to approving reporters on how Fox News has the audacity to support the Bush Administration in its policy on Iraq. This ancient impostor is on Fox very often, and is allowed his point of view without interruption.

But he evidently does not believe Fox News is committing good journalism when it espouses a viewpoint that differs from his own and that of the other networks, cable news outlets and print media of the USA, which are preponderantly tilted to the left [according to a three-year study by UCLA School of Journalism/U. of Missouri, two schools whose journalism students don't cheat on ethics exams and who actually grade their students, unlike the Columbia School of Jackassery which gives a pass/fail on take-home exams which their jackass students still manage to cheat on].

Marvin Kalb, the Shorenstein Center and the CSJ subversive training academy stalwarts are all hoping to undermine capitalism and nannify social norms until the US is so feminized, weakened and demoralized, that their final nihilist suicide-in-disguise agenda will be realized---the destruction of values and revolt of the artists that Nietszche was calling for just before he became completely and terminally insane.

AP and Reuters and the MSM are just helpers and minders and monitors of the journey to the asylum where Friedrich spent his last years.