Comments on: More from Princeton

By: Fausta

Fausta — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:31:46 +0000

Double thanks, Roger! I just realized there's a corollary of APDD, which is Total APDD: when AP doesn't report at all on a newsworthy event: For instance, unreported by AP, but covered by TigerHawk, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speech at The Woodrow Wilson School. (No, I didn't go to Gen. Petraeus's lecture. I was in town, but the weather was nice and I was enjoying it.)

By: Billy Hank

Billy Hank — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:07:43 +0000

Vulgorilla,

May I offer a slight amendment?

How ’bout “Assorted Phables?”

By: Vulgorilla

Vulgorilla — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:10:58 +0000

It’s gotten so bad that when I see the AP (Associated Phables) byline, I immediately stop reading and go on to the next article. I assume that the AP article is first of all false (as the crowd booing at Bush’s wishes for Clinton’s quick recovery from heart surgery piece), or that significant facts were ommitted since it didn’t support the AP’s political agenda. In any event, I don’t pay them any attention anymore. After all, why waste my time on propaganda?

By: Michael_B

Michael_B — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:54:38 +0000

Too, a recent Blair speech is similarly compelling.

By: Michael_B

Michael_B — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:57:53 +0000

An enthusiastic round of applause for PJM and a sincere thank you as well.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:41:45 +0000

Yes indeed. APPD, a diagnosis whose time has come. You are so right, kynna, about how the rest of the press takes the AP errors and runs with them, compounding the damage. As a matter of fact, I just posted an article on this very subject, an AP mess-up--this time concerning an erroneous caption heard round the world. The echoes still reverberate. The AP seems to think it doesn't have to check facts and be accurate any more. Perhaps it's taken post-modernist thought too much to heart.

By: kynna

kynna — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:30:52 +0000

We saw an example of their reaction to citizen journalists when they reported a Republican crowd ‘booing’ when President Bush mention Bill Clinton’s heart troubles. It was an out and out lie and they were busted.

APDD is so dangerous because the MSM often takes their reports and runs them verbatim. AP makes corrections on the net, but doesn’t note it and often after the original, flawed, report has been picked up by numerous outlets.

I am anxious for PJM to get going because I am excited about a coordinated effort to get the truth out. I am only patient because I know it takes time to do it right.