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AP’s Washington Bureau Chief, Ron Fournier, exposed as a McCain shill

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

On Tuesday Michael Calderone at Politico produced definitive evidence of Ron Fournier’s bias in favor of John McCain. He did it by linking the Associated Press Washington Bureau chief directly to the McCain presidential campaign. Over a period of several months during 2006, Fournier discussed taking a high-level communications job with the McCain campaign. Apparently [...]

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Tags: News · Politics · Scandal

Who are the “Media Bloggers Association” and what gives them to right to negotiate copyright with the Associated Press?

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

The Associated Press has promised to meet with some organization I’ve never heard of called “The Media Bloggers Association” to work out the details of its frankly insane proposal to sell licenses to quote five or more words from AP stories.
Who are the Media Bloggers Association? Turns out it’s mostly one guy, some right-wing attack-blogger [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · News · Scandal

Yes We Did

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Updated 2:55 PM -

AP: Obama Has Clinched The Nomination
The Associated Press weighs in with another big one (and with a bit of luck on the news orgs’ part, this one will turn out to be accurate)…
Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming [...]

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Tags: News · Politics · Primaries