The following is the opening of the Associated Press article on President Bush's acceptance speech last night, appearing in thousands of newspapers across America:
An unpopular war and 1.1 million lost jobs is enough to kill a presidency, so President Bush tried Thursday night to make the election about something else: himself and his leadership style. "Even when we don't agree," he told an anxious and divided nation, "you know what I believe and where I stand."
Not content to tell insinuate that Bush is a failure, the AP also claimed that he is out of touch:
He sought to make a virtue of his differences with half or more of the electorate...
They even out and out mocked his speech:
He'll simplify the tax code (who wouldn't?) and put health centers in every poor county (why not?), but he didn't say how.In short, the AP, told the reader that "The idea is to make people afraid to change, even as they're craving it."
This is objective news coverage? On what planet?
Maybe this is not the AP's fault. Maybe the local paper I got this from took an intended "news analysis" piece and put it on the front page, by accident or otherwise>
However, even if this was analysis, the AP's biases still show loud and clear.
