How to screw the news AP Style divide one story in to many and then

[libertypirate]

try and overlap the stories. Nothing like blur to help disuade interest in a story.

Take the Abramoff Shit fest...

Make many stories out of the big one and people will think it's too complicated and loose interest. Take any long running news story, it doesn't get divided up so people loose interest.

Burns
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/NEWS01/60313001

Sweeney
http://www.poststar.com/story.asp?storyid=214287

Brownback
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/03/nice_work_if_yo.html

AP Coverage:

http://www.kbzk.com/Global/story.asp?S=4625753

As usual the dittoed anemic stories from AP rise up in search engines then the story becomes what AP said. Tom Delay, his shit already stinks what's a little more anything to keep the others out of the news.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/14090560.htm

Well more of it lives at RawStory, where it was reported before being dismantled by AP.

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Roll_Call_DOJ_investigating_9_Congressmen_0313.html



This is your brain on news...
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Roll_Call_DOJ_investigating_9_Congressmen_0313.html
This is your brain on AP....
http://www.kbzk.com/Global/story.asp?S=4625753
Any questions? Yeah like what happened to the fucking story...

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. AP = All Propaganda

It really is quite simple for BushCo to control vast swaths of American media. AP is a big cog in their machine.

[MADem]

2. Actually, it is the newspaper that does the cutting and pasting

AP or any other news outfit just writes plain paragraphs, and the agency that picks it up, either to reprint or to use it in their broadcasts, just picks out the paragraphs they want to use, and edits them as they see fit, putting a reporter byline on it sometimes, or saying AP contributed to this report.

The first link doesn't even bother to credit AP.

Also, a reporter can take the crap that AP puts out, and ADD their own spin to it, as happened with the second story--see the byline? By MAURY THOMPSON, [e-mail]--that is a LOCAL reporter.

AP also does not write the headlines you see in local papers. The spin is homegrown.