{"id":7550,"date":"2006-05-31T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2006-05-31T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T13:13:20","slug":"the-ap-makes-story-on-reid-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-ap-makes-story-on-reid-even-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"The AP makes story on Reid even worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we learned that the AP ran a big story<\/a> on Senate Minority Leader [tag]Harry Reid[\/tag] accepting some [tag]tickets[\/tag] to [tag]boxing[\/tag] matches from the Nevada Athletic Commission, which the AP’s [tag]John Solomon[\/tag] suggested was an ethical lapse on Reid’s part. It wasn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today we learn that the [tag]AP[\/tag] has managed to make the same article even worse. A “revised” version of the same article removed language<\/a> that explained that Reid voted against<\/i> the interests of the Nevada Athletic Commission. In other words, the AP obscured the one key piece of information that proved that Reid did nothing inappropriate here.<\/p>\n

As Aravosis put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is very difficult to believe that this was anything other than intentional on the part of the Associated Press. They appear to have changed a story – taken the most significant piece of information out of a story – in order to better smear a sitting US Senator. And before the AP says it was a simple mistaken edit, a number of the top blogs wrote about that very sentence yesterday, showing how that sentence proved the AP story was a hatchet job. Would AP now have us believe that they never heard of the criticism, and the sentence simply disappeared by accident?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s all say it together: What liberal [tag]media[\/tag]?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we learned that the AP ran a big story on Senate Minority Leader [tag]Harry Reid[\/tag] accepting some [tag]tickets[\/tag] to [tag]boxing[\/tag] matches from the Nevada Athletic Commission, which the AP’s [tag]John Solomon[\/tag] suggested was an ethical lapse on Reid’s part. It wasn’t. Today we learn that the [tag]AP[\/tag] has managed to make the same article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}