TheRevolutionaryAct:
When conservatives consider media bias, they invariably jump to mainstream outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and so on.
But what is often overlooked is the Associated Press, or AP, which indisputably has the biggest media impact because its stories run in virtually every daily newspaper and news network in the country including the New York Times and Washington Post, CNN and so on.
People often complain about a story in the Times or Post or elsewhere, but it turns out to be an AP story. But that is only known by looking under the name of the byline of the reporter or the tagline or citation of a video. Most media consumers don’t do that.
But the reach of the AP is staggering. Just hidden. According to the organization’s annual report, the AP:
- Produces 2,000 stories every day
- Operates bureaus in more than 100 countries
- Has reporters in every state capital
- Is used in 900 newsrooms around the world
- And of course, has social media reach of 12 million Twitter followers and 2 billion Youtube views. In this case, social media is small compared to the intra-media impact.
The bottom line: more than half the world’s population sees content from the Associated Press every day. No other media outlet can touch this reach. Most people just don’t realize it because the AP is not it’s own media brand. It’s a consortium. And every bit as hyper-liberal as the brand names it provides content to.
The AP is a not-for-profit headquartered in New York City. The AP, founded in 1846, is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations. It operates as a cooperative association. The AP “wire” carries stories from its contributors, but it generates nearly 15,000 stories weekly. It also sells content to other media organizations not in its consortium.
This gigantic mainstream media collective of thousands of journalists around the world is a major contributor to the deep bias and decline in journalistic standards.
Consider just a few of the most egregious examples from this year:
▇ Headline: “AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits”
The proper shorthand for this behemoth i]s: AsP
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Live comedic coverage of MSM coverage of summit thread
MSNBC in meltmode of gloom on a stunnigly beautiful day in Helsinki. Paid pundits preaching that all is lost. Deep State actors playing parts on daytime and prime time TV.
AP= Ahole Progressives.
I’ve long seen the powerful abuse of the AP story.
In fact the local papers often attribute a front page article to “AP” without even naming an author.
Those are the weaponized ones (editorials, really) that quote anonymous sources and push falsehoods that they portray as true, or polls that are opposite what the majority thinks (small pointed sampling accomplishes that very easily)
Our small town newspaper in SW Montana has steadily gotten rid of actual journalists over the years and pulls all national content from the AP. As expected this newspaper is hard left, much to the orgasmic glee of the university town in which it is published. It is good to see the harsh light of truth placed on the AP for the journalistic sewage it spews into the sponge-like minds of the arrogantly ill informed.
WoW
Didn’t the CEO of AP all but admit that they were in the tank for Obama early in that administration?
Old news sorry to say. People have been calling AP – American Pravda – since back in the 90’s that I can remember. Reuters became marked as Al-Reuters for some years now too.
I can remember when Clinton ran against Bush Sr in 1992. All AP photos of Clinton that we saw were shown with him smiling, energetic, waving and full of energy. Every AP photo of Bush we saw was with him frowning, looking tired, disinterested. My friends and I used to sit there and laugh how painfully obvious it was they were in the tank for Clinton.
They are the ones that mastered the old game “Guess the political affiliation”. You know where if there is a news article about a politician committing a crime and there was no political affiliation listed, it was always a Democrat. When it was the Republican, you’d get GOP, Republican and (R) all used in the byline and first paragraph.
Though if they did use the (D) or word Democrat, the propagandist would always include a story about a Republican doing the same exact thing as if to lessen the severity of the crime.
AP is the source? Move along, nothing to see.
What a coincidence. . .
AP Jonathon Lemire narrative spinning and plotting reportage strategy with Brian Williams LIVE on msNBC right now.
See THEM work in real Time as seen on TV.
Next up. . . Bill Kristol
RIGHT
Actually Ronny’s folk coined the term “American Pravda” ~’82! For what to every conservative were clear cut, obvious, reasons!
AP is still anti America ; after almost 40 years!
Chucky Schumer near tears
I thought this was well known, at least to conservatives.
AP=Absurd Press