CNN: AP botched Clinton Foundation story

Posted by | August 27, 2016 13:18 | Filed under: Media/Show Business News Behaving Badly Politics


Dylan Byers shows how the AP’s story on the Clinton Foundation drew now blood after all.

“The AP’s social-media take on the story was seriously flawed,” David Boardman, the Dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University and former editor of the Seattle Times, told CNNMoney. “It’s sloppy, click-grabbing shorthand that is a disservice to the reporting to which it refers.”

On Tuesday, the AP sent out a breaking news alert: “BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.”

Not true: As the article stated, what the AP found was that “more than half the people outside the government” who met with Clinton while she was secretary of state “gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation.”

This “extraordinary” finding, as the AP put it, was deemed less extraordinary by other journalists and pundits who noted that Clinton had held thousands of meetings with government employees, foreign representatives, civil leaders, journalists and others while Secretary of State that were not accounted for in the AP’s report.

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14 responses to CNN: AP botched Clinton Foundation story

  1. Guy Lauten August 27th, 2016 at 13:35

    In other words:
    The AP ran a lie-by-omission story slanted to be a hit story on Hillary to grab clicks.
    Sorry, but the AP being stuck lip-to-ass to the GOP is not news to me. After so many years of it, I doubt too many others are taken in by their one sided “reporting”.

  2. William August 27th, 2016 at 13:37

    ….and so it drags on.

    • Larry Schmitt August 27th, 2016 at 14:34

      “Back to you, Trey, at the House Benghazi Clusterf*ck.”

      • William August 27th, 2016 at 14:46

        Trey will soon reap his comeuppance.

    • StoneyCurtisll August 27th, 2016 at 16:04

      About time they actually worked for a living..
      Even if it is in pursuit of useless end ever…
      is it to late to ask for my money back? (tax payer funded)

    • wpadon August 27th, 2016 at 18:42

      They can always repeal the ACA and cut off funding for Planned Parenthood again.

  3. Foundryman August 27th, 2016 at 14:38

    Saying it was ‘botched’ suggests it was a mistake. The AP made no mistake, this was a deliberate hit piece, part of a 30 year right wing propaganda witch hunt on Hillary. The AP is and has been and will always be a tool for the right wing propaganda machine as much as Fox news or Breitbart.

    • whatthe46 August 27th, 2016 at 15:08

      you’re absolutely right.

    • Red Mann August 27th, 2016 at 17:28

      Not just the right wing, not a few lefties have an irrational view of her. The AP has been slanting stories against her and Obama using weasel words for years.

  4. whatthe46 August 27th, 2016 at 15:10

    heads need to roll and these so-called “journalist” accountable for FALSE reporting.

  5. Tommie August 27th, 2016 at 15:38

    Even though I don’t agree with nothing Kellyanne says but she even said that,”The Clinton foundation is doing great work.” Trump donated a 100,000 dollars to the Clinton Foundation! Must not be that bad, huh?

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