AP on Iraq: News Reports or Editorials?
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Define ‘Lacking Credibility’
When the world's largest news organizations toe the line with U.S. officials on highly unpopular government policies, you don't have a press:
you have a Ministry. In its declaration of journalistic ethics, The Associated Press demands, "Anyone who works for the AP . . . must refrain from declaring their views on contentious public issues in any public forum." [1]
That has not prevented AP's Baghdad bureau from promoting the belligerent U.S. occupation of Iraq.
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Define ‘Lacking Credibility’
When the world's largest news organizations toe the line with U.S. officials on highly unpopular government policies, you don't have a press:
you have a Ministry. In its declaration of journalistic ethics, The Associated Press demands, "Anyone who works for the AP . . . must refrain from declaring their views on contentious public issues in any public forum." [1]
That has not prevented AP's Baghdad bureau from promoting the belligerent U.S. occupation of Iraq.
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