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Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676
...when I read that on the AP...
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I have learned to avoid giving the AP too much credibility.
I've been part of, or have had inside knowledge of, several "newsworthy" events that got mangled to the point of unrecognizability by the Associated Press. Don't try to defend them by saying that they just pick up stories from other sources -- I've seen how they edit those stories, leave out important context, juxtapose things to make people seem to
say the thing which is not, and occasionally add a word or two of invented detail just to make it more attention-getting.
On top of many primary sources failing to get the details perfectly correct, this makes a lot of what goes through AP unreliable enough that I can't trust
any of it.
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