WTF?? is an AP-generated editorial called "FACT CHECK" masquerading as an article??

[islandmkl]

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape

AP foreign, Thursday April 30 2009 CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP)

"That wasn't me," President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One. It actually was partly him and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years who shaped the latest in a string of precipitously out-of-balance budgets.

And as a presidential candidate and president-elect, he backed the twilight Bush-era stimulus plan that made the deficit deeper, all before he took over and promoted spending plans that have made it much deeper still.

it goes on at length: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8481693

...i guess i have somehow overlooked these "Fact Check" 'articles'...are they a regular AP feature...

did i miss the last 8 or 12 years of them?

[Rebellious Republican]

1. Here is your answer, just in case you did not know, it is an extension of

Faux News.....

Rupert Murdoch joins Associated Press board.
Today, the Associated Press announced at its annual meeting that Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., is joining its board of directors. Three other media moguls are also joining the board, including Sam Zell, who recently "took control of Tribune Co. after leading a buyout that resulted in the publicly traded company becoming private."

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/14/rupert-murdoch-joins-associated-press-board/

[stillcool]

2. I didn't know that..

no wonder.

[Rebellious Republican]

3. That also explains why AP went after the artist for Obama....

Shepard Fairey for his art poster for Obama....

Legal issues with appropriation and fair use
See also: Fair use and appropriation art
Fairey has come under criticism for appropriating others' artwork into his own while failing to provide attribution for the work used.<36><37> However, he has threatened to sue artists for the same technique. Austin, Texas graphic designer Baxter Orr did his own take on Fairey's work in a piece called Protect, with the iconic Obey Giant face covered by a SARS respiratory mask.<38> He started selling prints through his website marketed as his own work. On April 23, 2008 Orr received a signed cease-and-desist order from Fairey's attorneys, telling him to pull Protect from sale because they alleged it violated Fairey's trademark. Fairey threatened to sue, calling the designer a "parasite".<39>

In 2009, it was revealed that the HOPE poster was based on a copyrighted photograph taken in April 2006 by Mannie Garcia while on assignment for the Associated Press (AP), which wants credit and compensation for the work.<40> However, Garcia believes that he personally owns the copyright for the photo, and has said, "If you put all the legal stuff away, I’m so proud of the photograph and that Fairey did what he did artistically with it, and the effect it's had."<41> Fairey feels his use of it falls within the legal definition of fair use.<42> Lawyers for both sides were discussing an amicable agreement.<43> Fairey, however, ultimately filed a federal lawsuit against the Associated Press, seeking a declaratory judgment that his use of the AP photograph was protected by the fair use doctrine and so did not infringe their copyright.<44>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_FaireyFairey

The Photographer Mannie Garcia apparently had no problem with Fairey's artistic use of his photograph.
It was only Murdoch's AP that had a problem with it.

[stillcool]

4. Wow...I had no idea...

they were involved in that! I remember when they started writing opinion pieces as news articles..but I didn't know about Murdoch. Man..a finger in every pot. Sure leaves a mark.

[Rebellious Republican]

5. This why I come to DU, so I can get the facts, like no where else!

The Corporate media has been manipulating what we are to see and hear.

:toast:

[ecstatic]

6. I saw that while checking my mail

Why are they allowed to include opinion pieces as top news stories? :shrug: