Media Mythbusters Blog

Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
It seems to matter little whether the location is Gaza or Baghdad. If there is a way to spin a story, Associated Press reporters will find it.
Today, American forces called in an AC-130 for support when they came under fire in the Kazimiyah district of Baghdad.
The Associated Press editorializes:
The AC-130, a lethal […]

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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Over the weekend, The Clinton campaign came under fire for a mailing that attacked Barack Obama’s horrific record on guns. The ad was inaccurate — it didn’t go nearly far enough in describing the number and kind of firearms Obama would like to see banned — but as Hillary’s record is every […]

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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Three days ago, I contacted Associated Press Director of Media Relations Paul Colford, asking him about photos taken by AP photographer Khalil Hamra, in Beit Lahiya, a town in the northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, April 28, 2008.
The caption for one Hamra photo read as follows, without a hint of uncertainty: […]

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