Paul Waldman at the Gadflyer notes an interesting piece from Media Matters about the Fox website changing the words of AP stories to suit the administration's propaganda needs. Specifically, they change "suicide bomber" in the AP stories to "homicide bomber," the term BushCo prefers.
It's one thing to let your own reporters (and copy editors!) be ground into chewy bits by the administration's ever-changing style guide (are they "personal accounts" this week? "Privatization"? "Your private hard-earned money hoarded in a mattress of stocks?" Whatever). But changing wire reports so it looks like the AP is going along with this ridiculousness? Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Rob
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Homicide: Life at FOX
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The AP is one of the few unbiased media sources left. At least, that's how I view them. That's where I get my news from--the wire stories that show up on my Yahoo! home page.
The Administration (that word is taking on an ominous, almost comic book villain-y connotation) and its lapfoxes are in an all-out War on Truth. It's the only way they can succeed, because if people knew what was really going on--if they, perhaps read the wire reports for the (mostly) unvarnished facts--there would be mass revolt.
Assuming there's nothing good on TV that night.
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