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AP News is the gold standard. If AP News get allured by investors, we're done folks. It's a wrap, let's go home. Journalism would be dead. Please put a donate b

AP News is the gold standard. If AP News get allured by investors, we're done folks. It's a wrap, let's go home. Journalism would be dead. Please put a donate button. I am happy to chip in $50 year to keep this thing alive. Anyone execs here working at AWS, Azure or GCP? Can we get AP News some decent hosting, yall? Edit: Apparently, they're adtech: https://www.ap.org/en-us/services/advertise-with-us https://www.ap.org/en-us/services/advertise-with-us

blueyes 6y ago
The AP is a newswire that sells its feed to newspapers. The best way to support it is by subscribing to a newspaper.
throwawaysea 6y ago
I’m not so sure. I think AP itself is subject to the same institutional capture and biases that have swept the rest of the journalism industry. You can see the cracks in their “gold standard” in the All Sides article about how they rated them (still Center but with reservations): https://www.allsides.com/blog/updated-media-bias-ratings-associated-press-and-ap-fact-check https://www.allsides.com/blog/updated-media-bias-ratings-ass... You can also see AP’s bias in their stylebook and guidelines on how to describe certain events - for example when do they use the word “riot” instead of “protest” or when should they label something as a “crisis”. The creeping bias at AP has been covered a few different times by other news outlets - here’s a random article I pulled from Google on the same: https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/aps-orwellian-push-to-change-the-news/ https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/aps-orwellian-push-to-change-t...
- Fellshard 6y ago
  Many of us have been warning of these stylebook changes for years. They've been making them quite regularly, and usually serve to set major biases in the initial framing of a subject.

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AP News is the gold standard. If AP News get allured by investors, we're done folks. It's a wrap, let's go home. Journalism would be dead. Please put a donate b

by systemvoltage 6y ago

blueyes 6y ago
The AP is a newswire that sells its feed to newspapers. The best way to support it is by subscribing to a newspaper.
throwawaysea 6y ago
I’m not so sure. I think AP itself is subject to the same institutional capture and biases that have swept the rest of the journalism industry. You can see the cracks in their “gold standard” in the All Sides article about how they rated them (still Center but with reservations): https://www.allsides.com/blog/updated-media-bias-ratings-associated-press-and-ap-fact-check https://www.allsides.com/blog/updated-media-bias-ratings-ass... You can also see AP’s bias in their stylebook and guidelines on how to describe certain events - for example when do they use the word “riot” instead of “protest” or when should they label something as a “crisis”. The creeping bias at AP has been covered a few different times by other news outlets - here’s a random article I pulled from Google on the same: https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/aps-orwellian-push-to-change-the-news/ https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/aps-orwellian-push-to-change-t...
- Fellshard 6y ago
  Many of us have been warning of these stylebook changes for years. They've been making them quite regularly, and usually serve to set major biases in the initial framing of a subject.