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AP does it again

The Associated Press does it again:

"An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports," AP reports today.

We ran the story in our print edition.

Will White House officials launch an offensive charging that AP "isn't a real news organization" and urge other media to "stop following its lead"?

Seriously, it's good to see AP fact-checking pronouncements by the administration, as it did last week about insurance industry profits. This raises AP's credibility.

The Obama White House seems to expect favorable news coverage, but some skeptical reporting will serve the public better.

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Andrew Brod

October 29, 2009 - 12:11 pm EDT

This is getting dumb. Every president expects favorable press and every president complains about the media. But no one is going to confuse the AP (which I agree is doing great work) and Fox News. Making the comparison once was good-natured ribbing, but now you've made it twice and it's beginning to look like you just don't get it.

Doug

October 29, 2009 - 2:21 pm EDT

From my perspective, an effort by government to freeze out or punish any media organization is an offense against all.

Andrew Brod

October 29, 2009 - 2:32 pm EDT

That may be, but it appears that you believe that a hard-hitting fact-checking news article by the AP (which I applaud) is the same as a slanted and/or inaccurate faux-news story on Fox (which I've seen with my own eyes). I don't have a problem with Fox's political agenda--it's a free country, and they make Doug Johnson happy. But what Fox does is simply not the same thing as what other media outlets do. You do see that, don't you?

Doug

October 29, 2009 - 2:53 pm EDT

As I've said before, I don't watch Fox News.

I don't watch MSNBC, either, which conservatives say is biased in the other direction.

I sometimes catch the end of the ABC evening news or check out CNN later in the evening.

The Fox phenomenon is interesting. A few years ago, I heard a local liberal blogger tell a class of journalism students that it was a mark against Fox that it reported stories the other networks wouldn't touch. I don't know if the herd mentality is always a mark of good journalism. I understand Fox sometimes reports valid stories that the other networks don't ... so why don't they?

My point, though, is that a White House that tries to marginalize a news organization is one that's a threat to freedom of information. A threat to academic freedom at a particular university shouldn't be discounted just because you think that university's academic standards aren't very high to start with. I see this as a comparable situation.

Doug Johnson

October 29, 2009 - 12:46 pm EDT

I agree Fox News is doing a great job, all the other media was taking a dive for Obama until Fox rating started to soar. Much top the dismay of some far left folks!
Most still take the dive, CNN, rating are lower than my golf score. Can recall when they were top dog!
I like the cash for clunkers, only cost the taxpayers $24,500 per car.
I know a guy, that had a car loaded for the junk yard, and got $4,500 for it, on a new truck.
I gald to see the N@O has finally begin to report,some of the going on in Raleigh!
Mr. Clark you were the star in the barber shop this morning.
Seems everyone has a interest in why you, raked Ann Coulter, and George Allen, and have ignored Allan Grayson?

Doug

October 29, 2009 - 2:24 pm EDT

I can't believe I'd be a subject of any interest in your barbershop, unless anyone there has seen my recent haircut.

Who's Allan Grayson?

tonymo

October 29, 2009 - 5:09 pm EDT

Doug, if you watched Fox News you would know who Allan Grayson, Demo-Rat Fl. is, and many other things of which you are blissfullu ignorant! Grayson is the latest Demo-Rat nutcase to hit the national scene. He's the clown who said the Republican's health plan is, "not get sick, and if you get sick, die quickly!" He called a gfemale member of the Federal Reserve a "K Street whore." He's made other similar idiotic comments, but at his 30th (at the same point Clinton and Bush had 5 and 6 respectively) fund raiser Monday in Miami, Obama praised him as a great representative. Another Demo-Rat congressman, Anthony Weiner said that Grayson is "one fry short of a happy meal ."

I'm surprised, (not) that the real news sources from which you get your limited information haven't reported on this lunatic.

tonymo

October 29, 2009 - 3:11 pm EDT

So now the esteemed "moderate" Andy Brod joins in on the attack on Fox News telling us they are not like the other "news" outlets. I assume he means MSLSD where hosts get a "tingle" up his leg every time his Messiah speaks, or that it is his "job" to make certain the president succeeds. Or perhaps he means CNN, the "real" news outlet that fact checks a comedy skit mildly ctitical of their Messiah, or that put on the air completely phony "quotes" suposedly made by Rush. hose are the very tip of the ice berg.

Brod like his similarly deranged colleagues that attack Fox, or Palin, or Bachmann simply because they know these folks are making an impact. They get under the skin of the left. Fox has all 14 of the top 14 rated shows in cable news, and have a 3:00 a.m. show that beats CNN's 8:00 p.m. show, and a 5:00 p.m. show that beata ALL of the other "real"news networks shows! MSLSD doesn't even do ANY weekend news shows.

Why did it take Fox to expose ACORN, or Van Jones the self described Communist, and 9/11 Truther, or Anita Dunn who praised Mao Tse Tung as one of her two favorite philosophers, or Mark Lloyd the Marxist Diversity czar who praised Hugo Chavez's "incredible" revolution, and wants to kill conservative talk radio because his side can't compete in the arena of ideas.

I guess none of those foks were "newsworthy!"

Andrew Clark

October 29, 2009 - 6:14 pm EDT

It does bother me that you seem to be making a lot of hay about criticizing something when you admit you don't know if the criticism is just. I hate, hate, hate MSNBC, but the comparison with Fox News isn't close to fair. Fox's "news" anchors are indistinguishable from their opinion guys. Add to that the fact that MSNBC gives three hours a day to a Republican former congressman. Fox's bias, though, isn't the problem. It's their independence. Trust me, Dad, watch it for a couple hours, even on the regular daytime "news" coverage, and it's very hard not to conclude they are a public relations wing for the Republican Party. Of course, any one of those stations is pretty good at making people dumber.

And man, tonymo calling someone deranged made my day! And he mentioned criticizing Bachmann to boot! Bachmann is quite clearly deranged. She's afraid of census forms and some mythical one world currency no one in the known universe is pushing for! Watch out for those census forms, Tony! They're coming to getcha next year!

One funny thing about Fox, though, is that it is seriously almost impossible to tell the difference between Glenn Beck and Stephen Colbert.

tonymo

October 30, 2009 - 11:48 am EDT

Andrew, I believe that it is hard for YOU to distinguish between Glenn Beck and Colbert because you are the poster boy for the brainwashed, big goverment, blame America first liberal. You defend the abject hypocrisy of the the Mass liberals changing the law twice in a handful of years to make certain a Demo-Rat gets an open seat.

You have no problem with the many lies put forth by your guys in the health care debate, or demonmization of everyone, including doctors, who disagree with this monstrosity. We were told this debate would be transparent, in the open, around a table with all sides, and televised by C-Span! You don't seem to mind the $250 billion (doctor fix)taken out of the plan and put straight to the deficit because "I won't sign a bill that will add a dime to the defict!"

You don't seem to mind the games with including 10 years of revenues (including many taxes, oops, fees, on the middle class), and only 5-6 years of providing benefits to hide the disastrous deficit effects down the road, just like medicare! And who, Andrew has been in the lead in pointing out these lies, and hpocrisy? Right, Fox News, and talk radio. That's why you hate Fox. And finally the reason that YOU can't tell the difference between Beck and Colbert is because a serious mental defect called liberalism! To you people hypocrisy is merely a policial methodology. You people are a CANCER on our society. You call the killing of the INNOCENT unborn a "woman's right to choose," then turn around and hold candle light vigils for convicted, confessed murderers. If that's not a sickness what is!

You support a president, says our Constitution is a "flawed" document, and the Founders "got it wrong," and who surrounds himself with self described Communists, and Marxists, and people say that Capitalism should be "dismantled brick by brick." Or people who praise Mao Tse Tung, who killed more people than Hitler, as one of their favorite "philosophers," or praised Hugo Chavez's "incredible revolution." It is not people like these, or you that made this the greatest, most prosperous, most powerful, most GENEROUS country in the history of the world in very short period of time. It is people like you that are now the problem with this country, and the reason for our continuing demise! Yeah, Beck's the problem!

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