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Today Joe Biden was in Alexandria, VA, and said, as reported by CNS News:
People look at me and say, "What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we've got to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" The answer is "Yes,"I'm tellin' ya.
Anyone with a fifth-grade sense of journalism would know that Biden's statement is newsworthy.
But the Associated Press reported on Biden's Alexandria appearance. Here are the first three paragraphs of the wire service's unbylined story:
[All supportive fluff...][snip]
The AP didn't think Biden's incredible statement was newsworthy; it must see part of its job description as "covering Joe Biden's tracks as much as possible, even if we look like ignorant fools when we do it."
The "Essential Global News Network" ought to be renamed the Apparatchik Press.A related entry [with video] is at BizzyBlog.com.
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