by matttbastard
1992 called–it wants its appalling lack of journalistic ethics and standards back.
No, seriously–you keep making shit up, with no apparent interest in sifting through unfounded allegations and baseless conjecture to find a nugget of fact. Hint: continually filing meat-free stories with breathless headlines like “Senate-for-sale case threatens new chief of staff” is a good way to brand yourselves as the Fox Newswire. Not to say that you’ve collectively lowered yourselves to the histrionic level of Professional Obama Haters (yet); but the desperate Blagobamarahmbogate obsession is getting a bit pathetic.
At this point, it seems that the primary source fuelling most of the recent unfounded allegations and baseless conjecture regarding Blagobamarahmbogate is–wait for it–the Associated Press. As Steve Benen said, “[a]s serious as Blagojevich’s problems are, it sounds like the Obama/transition team angle is a dud. There’s just nothing there.” So why, in the middle of the worst economic downturn since 19-fucking-29, do you insist on flailing and floundering with great speculative ado over, um, nothing?
Newsflash: there’s no clutter left to cut through, kids; you’ve totally eviscerated the biggest obstacle to successfully implementing Ron Fournier’s new mandate: your credibility.
in fairness and balance,
matttbastard
PS: George Stephanopolus would like to formally apologize for taking the wind out of your sails today. Not that this latest no-shit-revelation will be enough to stem the speculative bluster emanating from your Washington Bureau. But one can always hope you’ll now start charting a new course.
(I know, and a dapple-fucking-grey pony.)
bastard.logic 
My father worked for Associated Press all his life and if he was alive today he wouldn’t recognize the place. In his day (the 80’s), the AP was all about breaking stories and journalistic ethics.
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Well if George Stephanopoulos and ABC NEWS say so that settles it then.
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The AP regularly lack investigation in medical issues. Preferring rather to be an outlet for pharma think tank message management much like Reuters.
Not a far stretch to be come a mouthpiece when former and current pharma CEO’s sit on the boards for these groups.
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Where have YOU been? The AP will write anything about anyone for the right amount of money. Ya see, money talks and ethics walks. It’s the new American way.
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