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To: Sully- who wrote (8601)	3/20/2005 2:17:08 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

The AP’s Brilliant Strategy for Avoiding Criticism from Blogs Patterico's Pontifications Filed under: Media Bias— Patterico @ 8:30 am Several days ago, I read the story about the AP’s decision to provide two different versions of major stories. One will be “the traditional ’straight lead’ that leads with the main facts of what took place.” The other will be an optional approach that “attempts to draw in the reader through imagery, narrative devices, perspective or other creative means.” The examples given: <<< Traditional MOSUL, Iraq (AP) A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners Thursday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government. Optional MOSUL, Iraq (AP) Yet again, almost as if scripted, a day of hope for a new, democratic Iraq turned into a day of tears as a bloody insurgent attack undercut a political step forward. On Thursday, just as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad were telling reporters that they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government, a suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners in the northern city of Mosul. >>> Here’s the part I missed the first time I read the story: <<< The AP stressed that the optional leads will not be available to the news service’s Internet providers. They are designed strictly for print. >>> Is this just a way for the AP to get out its bias in print, without being criticized by Web pundits? patterico.com

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