Paragraphs of the Day: On Yesterday’s Fram-Putman AP Disgrace
Alan Caruba (Wiki entry here), in going after the disgraceful “report” by Associated Press writers Alan Fram and Eileen Putman (”Everything is seemingly spinning out of control”) that I criticized yesterday, makes an important point — namely, that the problem goes well beyond the pathetic pair of jaded journalists:
World to End. Vote Democrat.
….. If Fram and Putnam are not on the payroll of the Democrat Party, then they surely should be for writing tripe like this. It screams at the reader to vote Democrat and, in particular, for Sen. Barack Obama, the wizard of hope and change.
This is not journalism by any stretch of the imagination. It is a blatant use of scare tactics to influence the outcome of an election. One expects a political party to engage in such tactics, but a major newswire syndicate should have a layer or two of seasoned editors who make sure such tripe does not move to newspapers and other media.
One has to conclude that the AP agrees that such “tripe” is “journalism,” and that there’s nothing out of order in what these two sad sacks wrote.
(Sidebar: SourceWatch doesn’t like Caruba, which is a sign that he’s likely an OK guy. Regardless, his critique is dead-on.)
Hopefully they go out of business before the election.
Comment by Scrapiron — June 23, 2008 @ 9:31 pm