"Something Has Gone Badly Wrong at the AP"

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Saturday August 27, 2016 · 6:22 PM PDT

2016/08/27 · 18:22

@mattyglesias If I were AP management, I would seriously ask whether a Trump partisan is running social media. Unless it's management itself
Ã¢ÂÂ Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 27, 2016

This was the response among many pundits to the latest outrageous headline coming out of the AP:

Dwyane Wade and Donald Trump speak out on Twitter in wake of the NBA star's cousin's fatal shooting. https://t.co/og56Rb7fEv
Ã¢ÂÂ The Associated Press (@AP) August 27, 2016

Many noted the recent inaccurate AP tweet about Clinton seeing some Clinton Foundation Donors while she was Secretary of State:

I wonder if @jeffjarvis still thinks the AP will reverse course on this story and its promotion. https://t.co/TygnWwcu9J I think they won't.
Ã¢ÂÂ Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 27, 2016

AP’s executive editor, Kathleen Carrol, will be on CNN’s Reliable sources tomorrow morning. The Host, Brian Stelter is aware of the tweet-rage and will be asking Kathleen about this. Some reaction after the Reliable Sources interview:

"This one could have used some more precision," says @kathleenatap about the "sloppy" tweet but "no regrets", won't take it down.
Ã¢ÂÂ Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 28, 2016

AP's official stance is that there's nothing wrong with tweeting inaccurate stuff. I disagree. https://t.co/1h7TMYsl2z
Ã¢ÂÂ Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 28, 2016

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Saturday August 06, 2016 · 12:50 PM PDT

2016/08/06 · 12:50

Much like the Republicans claimed that Al Gore said he “invented” the internet (he didn’t), the Trump Campaign is now claiming that Hillary Clinton said her brain “short-circuited”. She Didn’t. She said the she short-circuited her answer to a question. Meaning, she tried to do it in a sound-bite rather than being overly “technical”, as the media has been criticizing her for giving overly technical answers to their questions.

Once again, it’s about the frikin’ emailz.

The fact is that the fact-checkers include technical explanations for their findings and conclusions. The fact-checkers also often include complex rebuttals to their own findings and conclusions, when they write them up. The only way to answer the fact-checkers is likewise with a complex answer. But they will criticize the answer no matter what she says, at this point.

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 · 11:27 PM PDT

2012/09/12 · 23:27

As is typical of Ari Fleischer and Luntz, whenever Republicans are confronted with the question: "Wasn't Romney jumping the gun when he made the comments about the Libyan Embassy?" -- they reply with some version of "It's never too early to support American Values!"

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"Something Has Gone Badly Wrong at the AP"

Trump (Lies) Claims Clinton said Her Brain "Short Circuited" [Update from K.Olbermann]

"It's never too early for Romney to try to score political points."