GOP sources in Washington say that Democrats on Captiol Hill are ignoring public desire for a bi-partisan approach to health care reform. Many Americans are concerned with upcoming changes and pending...
The shocking death photo released by AP and taken by staff photographer Julie Jacobson is growing into a scandal and precipitating some heated debate about the people's right to know verses a family's right to...
opinion by Tina Kells | 9 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago 10036 views | 41 recommendations | 60 comments
US marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was wounded in Afghanistan, and died on the operating table. Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson shot a photo of the dying soldier, and the AP released the image. The Department of Defense immediately protested the publication...
opinion by jordan | 9 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago 70206 views | 32 recommendations | 146 comments
Lately, the Associated Press (AP) has truly been going out of their way to show that traditional journalists really do understand social media.Open-source, cross-linking, going viral? They're down with that. The AP is with it. Fo' shizzle.For instance, the AP understands that...
An interesting observation from David Cohn, who's been doing some very important work at Spot.Us. "David Cohn of Spot.Us says: “We have begun to see a pattern among the pitches that do and do not get funded… The...
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Three journalists of Channel-4, a London-based television news network have been arrested in Sri lanka on charges of tarnishing the image of the government security forces. The trio, Nick Paton...
This is my comment on the increasing irrelevant AP's desperate last ditch effort to prevent it from going the way of the many bankrupt newspapers that have went before it. [See AP IS DESPARATE TO OUTLAW SEARCH ENGINE LINKING] For the last 30 years or so the AP self censored...
AP has reached out to affiliate radio station WTNQ-FM in Tennessee to say sorry after a misunderstanding over some YouTube video footage. AP was rumored to have sent WTNQ-FM a cease-and-desist letter after the radio station embedded footage from the AP YouTube channel...
created by Tina Kells | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 129 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Guess who's got their back up against the wall and their copyright-clad knickers in a twist again? You guessed it, the Associated Press, that bastion of the newsiest news the news biz has ever produced is about to...
Some U.S soldiers have suffered from shocks when showering and using electrical appliances in Iraq. There have been at least three deaths and one was of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth.Army investigators claimed "Maseth's death" was because of "negligent homicide caused by KBR...
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While reading an Associated Press report this morning about events that took place at the Bluegrass Ball Monday night, I found one important detail omitted from the report were as telling as the ones included. The...
The FDIC issued a news release Friday to let the world known the agency’s board had approved a letter of intent to sell IndyMac Bank to a thrift holding company controlled by IMB Management Holdings LP. ...
Few Americans realize the number of people murdered in Chicago during 2008 was larger than the number of U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq during the same period.In a Sept. 4 post, I noted an effort by Chicago’s CBS...
.MY pictures show two Gaza casualties, a dead soldier and an injured child.-------------------We are beginning to see the extentof civilian suffering in the Gaza warand the worst may still be ahead. Yet so called...