The AP reports: BANGKOK, Thailand -- An Associated Press reporter in Vietnam was punched, choked and hit over the head with a camera by police who de...
Steve Ralls | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Anyone who read the headlines this week about Senator Barack Obama's support for ending the federal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on lesbian, gay and bi...
AP | TED BRIDIS | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media
WASHINGTON -- Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alask...
Editor & Publisher | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
NEW YORK An Associated Press analysis of Barack Obama's widely praised (across the political spectrum) speech last Thursday drew much criticism from l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
Here's the lede from an "analysis" piece from the Associated Press: Liberals sound like conservatives; the right sounds like the left. John McCain's ...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
The AP asks the rather provocative question of, after hurricane Gustav, whether 'New Orleans is worth it?': Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier has recently been the focus of sustained criticism of media watchers, who have complained about a detectable f...
Christopher Ingram | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
GOP nominee's pick is the best since Kennedy picked LBJ - but for totally different reasons Slap me silly and call me stupid, but John McCain is on h...
Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.28.2008 | Media
In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles ...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.28.2008 | Media
Another analysis gem from the Associated Press. We'll just highlight one of the more idiotic portions.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.21.2008 | Media
Independent photojournalists, NGO workers and citizens are part of this important movement to take back the news from those who focus on profits.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media
Among the Corsi pieces this week one stands out. It appeared Thursday night via The AP, written by one of its top political reporters, Nedra Pickler -- a journalist the liberal blogosphere has frequently criticized.
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Stepping back, we might take stock of where we are as a civilized world 16 years after Radovan Karadzic was allowed to exterminate people he found inconvenient.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
The revelation that as an AP reporter Fournier privately urged Karl Rove to "keep up the fight," came as no surprise to anyone who has read his recent campaign work.
Politico | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as "a mentor." Johnson, though, rega...
August J. Pollak | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Speaking, as applicable. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....
Guardian | Jeff Jarvis | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media
The Associated Press didn't know what it stepped in when it sent a lawyer's letter to the blog Drudge Retort (a Drudge Report parody) demanding that i...
Wall Street Journal | Russell Adams | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media
As the economic pressure on newspapers intensifies, the Associated Press, a 162-year-old newsgathering cooperative for the industry, is beginning to f...
Wired | John C Abell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Business
The AP probably had no idea it would create such a firestorm in the blogging community by telling the (aptly named) Drudge Retort to remove seven head...
Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 06.28.2008 | Business
If The Associated Press' business model isn't broken now, it could be soon. The non-profit group -- a co-op news organization owned by 1,500 daily new...
LA Times | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
The Associated Press recently pulled a Metallica online, and no, that's not a good thing. Metallica, one of the most popular heavy-metal bands of all ...
New York Times | Saul Hansell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to h...
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — It's Barack Obama's party now. He beat the ultimate insider at the insider's game. And he's already turned his full-bore att...
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2008 | Home
The "welcome back" rally scheduled for Tuesday in Des Moines is a thank you to the white working class voters who catapulted him to the front of the race and gave Clinton her first taste of defeat.
AP | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members jo...
AP/Ed+Pub | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media