McCain and Palin bite the hand which feeds. Media begins to bite back -- including Fox News (though the following story is not about Fox News; read the HuffPo piece on that one).
After reading HuffingtonPost piece by Rachel Weiner, I started bouncing around google, and ended up at Gawker.Com's piece on 'Bias: Subtle Media Sarcasm Watch'... which had a link for "The Most Sarcastic Associated Press Lead Sentence Ever".
Well, I'm hooked.
THE NEW REPUBLIC names their url -- AP: Palin Abuses Power In Abuse of Power Inquiry
AP: Sorry, Sarah Palin, That's Just Wack
The Associated Press took the prize today for the most dryly contemptuous lead sentence I've read in a political news story in a while:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Less than a week after balking at the Alaska Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire.
In the Poynter Institute's online media forum, Jay Rosen asked, "At what point does an extreme attempt to de-legitimate the press actually de-legitimate the candidate ... in the eyes of the press?" Perhaps this is that point.
--Eve Fairbanks
EDIT: I can't look forward to reading this in tomorrow's paper, because -- as Trixie notes -- the story by Matt Volz is dated 'one day ago'. It's my own fault. All the articles about it have today's headline, but the actual story is yesterday.
I'll do another edit, when I buy today's paper to comb.
Does anyone have information on how to track how often stories are actually printed that the AP puts out on the wire? and who prints them?