Conservative Bias in Associated Press News Coverage

This email was just sent to the Associated Press in response to the consrvatively biased reporting of Valerie Plame's testimony yesterday. You can read the story by clicking on the post title. You can contact the Associated Press at info AT ap.org

Good Morning Associated Press

On this morning just before 10s of thousands of us march on the Pentagon in protest of one of many of the Bush Administrations illegal actions, its particularly disturbing to read this story by the AP regarding Valerie Plame's testimony yesterday on the Hill

Did your writer take her cue from talking points written and sent out by Roger Ailes at Faux News?

There was never an attempt to have Valerie Plame provide testimony to get to the bottom of why Robert Novak outed her. The purpose, and it was resoundingly accomplished, was to establish for the record that Valerie Plame was 1) a CIA operative, and 2) was a covert operative under the wording in the law. The law states that to be covert you must have worked overseas on a mission in the last 5 years. Valerie Plame did that.

Instead of pointing out the facts of the story, your conservative-biased writer instead focused on the "glamour" that Plame brought to the witness table. Would your biased writer have referred to her as the "coyote ugly" Valerie Plame if she weren't so attractive? I think not. So why the glamour hyperbole??

What about this statement - "Plame, the operative at the center of the leak scandal that resulted in last week's criminal conviction of a former top White House official, created more of a stir by her presence on Capitol Hill than by her testimony."? What does that do for the story other than having your biased reporter admit in her piece what Valerie did under oath - namely that she was a CIA operative.

Why did your reporter fail to mention that Karl Rove, Robert Novak and others directly involved in actually leaking her identify were conspicuously absent from yesterday's hearing?

Why did the Associate Press stoop to the level of the Faux Noise Network in your reporting?

Its unfortunate that the media have been so buffaloed by the right wing nut cases about alleged "liberal" bias that you now so obviously and openly flaunt conservative bias? I used to have respect for the Associated Press. Now, however, you are no better than Neil Cavuto or Bill O'Reilly.

A sad day for American journalism.