Comments on: This Week in Apartheid Propaganda http://detainthis.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/this-week-in-apartheid-propaganda/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:04:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: detainthis http://detainthis.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/this-week-in-apartheid-propaganda/#comment-617 detainthis Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:21:18 +0000 http://detainthis.wordpress.com/?p=184#comment-617 Thank you, Brenda. You're too kind. Thank you, Brenda. You’re too kind.

]]> By: brenda http://detainthis.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/this-week-in-apartheid-propaganda/#comment-616 brenda Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:34:10 +0000 http://detainthis.wordpress.com/?p=184#comment-616 Top notch analysis. Thank you for providing a straightforward example of the public manipulation carried out daily by the AP. The average reader of an AP news article doesn't even know what hit him--he just walks away convinced of precisely what AP wants him to think. Slick salesmanship at its best. Anyone who doubts the AP's subjectivity (but they're "associated" surely their people check on these things!) should try an experiment: read dozens of independently reported versions of the same story, together with the AP version. They will all be remarkably different in tone. The majority will be biased, some one direction, some the other. It is sad indeed that "reporting" has little role in today's journalistic world of interpretation and re-packaging. Top notch analysis. Thank you for providing a straightforward example of the public manipulation carried out daily by the AP. The average reader of an AP news article doesn’t even know what hit him–he just walks away convinced of precisely what AP wants him to think. Slick salesmanship at its best. Anyone who doubts the AP’s subjectivity (but they’re “associated” surely their people check on these things!) should try an experiment: read dozens of independently reported versions of the same story, together with the AP version. They will all be remarkably different in tone. The majority will be biased, some one direction, some the other. It is sad indeed that “reporting” has little role in today’s journalistic world of interpretation and re-packaging.

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