Sweet holy mother, the AP's Ron Fournier delivers *another* load o' crap tonight

[Newsjock]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_analysis

By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer

DENVER - For one evening, their political world was perfect. Or so it seemed.

Standing before thousands of delegates, almost half of them her backers, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton declared it time "to unite as a single party with a single purpose" and urged her followers to help elect once-bitter rival Barack Obama. "We are on the same team," she said, after allowing the applause to build to a crescendo and linger, longer than usual — much like the Democratic primary race itself.

"Barack Obama is my candidate," she said. "And he must be our president."

But did she mean it? And would it matter?

True, her challenges Tuesday night were impossibly high, perhaps mutually exclusive.

She had to both promote her political future and unify her party. Clinton had to somehow convince people that she honestly thought Obama was ready for the presidency. But something stood in her way: Her words.

... And if Obama loses, as Hillary said he would during the campaign, she is blameless and the party can turn back to her without guilt in four years.

[WCGreen]

1. He's not a reporter...

So I guess he can spin the whole thing anyway he wants to. It's up to the Newspapers that print his biased articles to ID them as opinion or analysis.

[Selatius]

2. One thing dangerous about opinion makers like Fournier is that people listen to them.

I don't know which is more frightening, people who spew garbage or the people who actually eat it up because they can't or won't think on their own.

[iconicgnom]

7. Some people do. For most, it's too transparent.

[EFerrari]

3. Ugggglee. I have to check and see if my fishwrap carries him. n/t

[Mojambo]

4. Blatantly partisan

Total hatchet job, and clumsily done.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. This shit is getting blatant - in your face like -

If he starts to open up a lead after Repuke-fest '08 it's going to get REAL ugly.

[XOKCowboy]

6. Contact your local paper and complain

AP gets a majority of their income from local papers. Write a ltte and tell them that you expect that their primary news source be nonpartisan.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

8. I just saw that too!

Rated it 1 star (too bad there isn't a 0 star choice). Rate it down, keep that trash where it belongs.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Looks Like Fournier's Game Is Costing AP Clients...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/26/22352/7383/615/576026

In case you're wondering why The Associated Press is so zealously defensive about people saying newspapers don't need them, it's because newspapers don't need them.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is the latest paper to cancel AP service. In Washington, The Spokesman Review of Spokane canceled around the same time that The Bakersfield Californian cut ties. Several smaller newspapers have joined in. In Ohio, eight of the top newspapers, including The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Columbus Dispatch, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Toledo Blade, decided to create their own network, the Ohio News Organization. Now they share local news without submitting it to the AP.

You can expect this trend to continue.

The reason is that with multiple 24-hour news networks, countless news sites online, and even news content on cell phones, consumers can access news from almost anywhere for free. Commoditized news like what the AP offers doesn't add much value to a newspaper while costing newspapers hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars a year. Even after newspapers demanded the Associated Press reduce its fees next year, that cut of approximately 10% still makes the AP a very large budget item for progressively smaller newspaper budgets.

So...the AP just lost the biggest paper in the town where the RNC is being held. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when this stenographer gets a copy of the paper, digging hard to find his screed and finally realizes he's been cancelled.

Just think of how many trees will be spared if this operation goes down. Think Green!!!!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. Wow.....

He's as pathetic as Charles Krauthammer was on FAUX tonight.

[Newsjock]

11. On the front page in Carson City, Nev.

I'm scanning through today's front pages at the Newseum, and so far I've found only one paper that ran this piece o' crap on the front page: the Nevada Appeal in Carson City. Front page centerpiece.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/pop_up.asp?fpVname=NV_NA&ref_pge=map&tfp_map=USA