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Nutroots try strong-arming the press I don't always support the Associated Press, but one of the nutroots bloggers who will be at the Democratic Convention has called for 15,000 minions to write AP to get them to ditch a writer who wrote an analysis that she, Jane Hamsher, did not like. I won't register to comment on her FireDogLake website [No link because I won't want to give her the favorable press]. I'd probably soon be banned anyway. But her blog entry should not go unremarked. I'm amused at your misrepresentation of ideal journalism as simply He said/She said. Ron Fournier's AP analysis was labeled analysis -- which means adding perspective to simple facts that without explanation might not otherwise accurately represent the lay of the land. Analysis helps improve the accuracy of people's understanding of the world around them. Jane, you are upset because you see the world differently than Mr. Fournier. I hate to break it to you, but you are not correct simply because you think you are. And I'm doubly amused that you think storming the AP is a rational answer. It's an absurd notion to think that repeating a bad idea 15,000 times somehow makes it better. Ah! I feel better now. Discuss Posted by Stephen Waters on 8/24/08; 5:16:47 PM from the Comments Dept. Permanent link: #

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