A hundred times yes. AP is inseparable from US imperialism. It projects the Pentagon’s version of reality to a global audience. Through sheer volume it floods the airwaves to the detriment of other countries’ own news agencies, sets the agenda, and is integral to US hegemony, as soft power.
Their issue. I’m not a teacher, and I’m done trying to school baby liberals. This isn’t reddit, but lemmy.ml, as in Marxism Leninism, and I’m too tired to go hunting for basic media imperialism 101 articles to argue on the internet because some guy said “src plz”. The source is me, ok. This is not an academic paper, go find your own sources if you wanna dig in. I’ll even help you out: Google Scholar the terms “associated press” and imperialism and soft power. Or better yet, just fucking read Lenin’s Imperialism, highest stage of capitalism. This is basic shit that anyone from of the 50+ countries US empire has invaded knows.
News flash: they’re all biased, written by biased humans, edited by biased humans, etc etc.
Meme out of the way:
Overall, we rate the Associated Press as left-centered biased due to left-leaning editorializing of news stories and frequently conducting fact checks on conservatives. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a reasonable fact-check record.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: News Agency
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
Note that mediabiasfactcheck.com is just the personal project of a random right-liberal American healthcare worker; it is not actually some kind of neutral arbiter of bias, and in fact it’s heavily biased itself. Ultimately it’s just some guys opinion, no better than getting the opinion of some person off twitter.
My point is, you may as well just post a random guy on twitter saying “yeah, I think AP new is pretty legit” and it would be as meaningful as posting mediabiasfactcheck.
You consider the Associated Press a biased source?
A hundred times yes. AP is inseparable from US imperialism. It projects the Pentagon’s version of reality to a global audience. Through sheer volume it floods the airwaves to the detriment of other countries’ own news agencies, sets the agenda, and is integral to US hegemony, as soft power.
So post your citations
Your first link is to a summary of a book and your second doesn’t mention the associated press
I don’t know what to tell you. To not be familiar with Chomsky’s or Parenti’s work is to lack basic media literacy, which, to be fair, is most people.
If you don’t want to read a book, you might start with the video documentary: Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media (Documentary) 1080p
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When this is your reaction to being asked for a source, people will immediately conclude that your claims are 100% made up
Their issue. I’m not a teacher, and I’m done trying to school baby liberals. This isn’t reddit, but lemmy.ml, as in Marxism Leninism, and I’m too tired to go hunting for basic media imperialism 101 articles to argue on the internet because some guy said “src plz”. The source is me, ok. This is not an academic paper, go find your own sources if you wanna dig in. I’ll even help you out: Google Scholar the terms “associated press” and imperialism and soft power. Or better yet, just fucking read Lenin’s Imperialism, highest stage of capitalism. This is basic shit that anyone from of the 50+ countries US empire has invaded knows.
News flash: they’re all biased, written by biased humans, edited by biased humans, etc etc.
Meme out of the way:
Overall, we rate the Associated Press as left-centered biased due to left-leaning editorializing of news stories and frequently conducting fact checks on conservatives. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a reasonable fact-check record.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: USA MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: News Agency Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/associated-press/
Note that mediabiasfactcheck.com is just the personal project of a random right-liberal American healthcare worker; it is not actually some kind of neutral arbiter of bias, and in fact it’s heavily biased itself. Ultimately it’s just some guys opinion, no better than getting the opinion of some person off twitter.
News flash: they’re all biased, written by biased humans, edited by biased humans, etc etc.
Source: a human robot on the internet
My point is, you may as well just post a random guy on twitter saying “yeah, I think AP new is pretty legit” and it would be as meaningful as posting mediabiasfactcheck.