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And the madness continues...3rd 'Rogue" thread.
Robert Shaffer - FOXNews.com - November 17, 2009
Robert Shaffer - FOXNews.com - November 17, 2009
AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check'
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the Associated Press' treatment of Palin's book seems an unprecedented move at the wire service
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently "Going Rogue" is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it also speculated into Palin's motives for writing "Going Rogue: An American Life," stating as fact that the book "has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto."
Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post led "Really? Still Making Things Up?"
"Imagine that," the post read. "11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."
The AP, an organization with over 4,000 employees and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, wouldn't comment on their own reporting for this story.
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.
The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.
The AP, however, regularly writes "fact checks" for major political speeches, such as a September health care speech by President Obama.
Doug Underwood, a University of Washington journalism professor who covered Washington politics in the late 1970s for Gannett, said Palin brings some negative attention on herself with a history of bad interviews and misstatements. In addition, the press cannot ever be perfectly consistent or fair, he said.
Still, the media treated Biden and Palin differently, he said.
Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in his book.
Palin is not the standard presidential possibility for 2012, Underwood said.
"She's a figure who's a politician, but also a part of popular culture," he said.
Palin supporters believe 11 reporters poring over every word of her book is excessive- and further proof of the media's obsession and maltreatment of the hockey mom from Wasilla.
"They're obsessed with trying to discredit her," said Adrienne Ross, New York state organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. "Because she's a conservative woman, they make fun of her accent, comment about her looks. She doesn't come in the package they want her to come in."
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the Associated Press' treatment of Palin's book seems an unprecedented move at the wire service
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently "Going Rogue" is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it also speculated into Palin's motives for writing "Going Rogue: An American Life," stating as fact that the book "has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto."
Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post led "Really? Still Making Things Up?"
"Imagine that," the post read. "11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."
The AP, an organization with over 4,000 employees and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, wouldn't comment on their own reporting for this story.
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.
The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.
The AP, however, regularly writes "fact checks" for major political speeches, such as a September health care speech by President Obama.
Doug Underwood, a University of Washington journalism professor who covered Washington politics in the late 1970s for Gannett, said Palin brings some negative attention on herself with a history of bad interviews and misstatements. In addition, the press cannot ever be perfectly consistent or fair, he said.
Still, the media treated Biden and Palin differently, he said.
Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in his book.
Palin is not the standard presidential possibility for 2012, Underwood said.
"She's a figure who's a politician, but also a part of popular culture," he said.
Palin supporters believe 11 reporters poring over every word of her book is excessive- and further proof of the media's obsession and maltreatment of the hockey mom from Wasilla.
"They're obsessed with trying to discredit her," said Adrienne Ross, New York state organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. "Because she's a conservative woman, they make fun of her accent, comment about her looks. She doesn't come in the package they want her to come in."
And the madness continues...3rd 'Rogue" thread.
This one is less about Palin and to me more about the drive-by's setting their sights. One book on the other side of the isle with atleast 4 fact checking. Or just two.
Barrack who?
Palin still playing the victim card?
Boo hoo... I believe in a free press, but you gotta treat my book with kiddie gloves.
I don't know how the any of you can like that spoiled child.
Palin should be thrilled. It's free advertising. It makes her more money.
Plus she can martyr herself as an excuse for the inevitable 2012 failure.
Funny how these liberal media organizations don't fact check works done by liberals...
10,001
I was unaware the AP was liberal or conservative, although I do seem to recall a bunch of butthurt libs complaining the AP's president was in the tank for GWB a couple of years ago.
Plus ca change...
Won't happen. She's not going to run in 2012. If she were going to run, she never would have quit the governorship. Her plan doesn't involve political office. It involves spending the next few years cashing in on the book and lecture circuit. Something that she would have been unable to do while holding the job as governor. So she writes a book knowing full well that both people who love her and hate her will obsess over every word in it and that will drive sales. Between now and 2012 she'll continue to keep herself in the public eye and will never say that she's going to run, but never completely closing the door either just to keep people interested in her. Then when it finally comes time for a decision she'll say she's not running and will ride off into the sunset thanking her supporters and laughing at her critics, having made a load of coin in the process. In the end, she wins. Ain't politics grand?
I'm going to tell you why they used an unprecedented amount of fact checkers:
They knew there was going to be lies in the book.
So why not fact check Audacity of HOpe?
How do you know it was not fact checked?
Because its not full of lies like this book was.
You'd have to fact check on that first.
Give me a link where the AP fact checked it with 10+ employees and i'll drop the subject.
You've read both books?
You're basing your conclusion on which has the lies on fact checking which was performed on one, and not the other, are you not?
Meh.
Moving the goalposts already?
Too easy.
Yeah, the right could have proved the Audacity of Hope was complete fiction, they're just such good people that they decided to leave Obama alone. GMAFB.
Tell ya what, if Obama's next book is basically a ghost writer re-telling a bunch of flat out fabrications on his behalf, you jackasses can have at him.
here you go chump.
This guy is a gambler too.
You want a link to your previous post?
OK.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...6&postcount=20
Hardly a gamble. This guy can't give away an ipod or bow to a Japanese PM without you ignorant s calling for his head.This guy is a gambler too.
But maybe you're right, his bestselling book has somehow avoided any scrutiny or thorough analysis.
Again. Give me a ing break.
So you gave up on finding a link to the AP equally holding a research team to Obama's book?
I know! it's kind of hard to believe those hayseed missipi baptist pro life boys at the NYT, CBS, and AP missed out on an easy target.
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