The AP and Fiction, June 21 Edition

The Associated Press has an article up on their site discussing the US-EU press conference this morning. I'm not a media watcher, but I was irritated by an inaccuracy in their report.

They report: "Bush dismissed as 'absurd' a recent poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in which European nations said that U.S. involvement in Iraq was a worse problem than Iran and its nuclear program."

Anyone who saw the press conference knows this is a blatant lie and an attempt to play word games by twisting things to serve some anti-Bush purpose.

The question the reporter asked is, in light of the poll, what was the President's response to the view that the US is a greater threat to world peace than Iran.

THAT is what he said was absurd. Not the poll itself. It is absurd that America is a greater threat than Iran. He did NOT say that it was absurd that US involvement in Iraq was a worse problem than Iran.

It sounds like splitting hairs, but the end result is two totally different things. The AP knows this crucial distinction and they've chosen to portray the President in a negative light. They want to portray him to Europeans as an ignorant cowboy who is dismissive of anything he doesn't like or agree with, especially if it is European.

It is another demonstration of the inability and unwillingness of the press to be objective and report. They are culturally unable to do anything but opine and editorialize by conciously and subconciously insinuating their biases into their stories. Why not simply print the exact wording? The press conference was taped. Go back and put word for word what was said. They can't do that. Because if they did, if people actually heard and read what was said in real life, interpreted things for themselves, the self-annointed 'role of the media' would be diminished.

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As told by Christo on June 21, 2006 @ 11:05

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