AP deletes Clinton Foundation tweet

[EV_Ares]

After leaving it up for two weeks? Yeah right AP.

The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it is deleting a two-week old tweet about the Clinton Foundation.


“The Associated Press today is deleting a 2-week-old tweet about Hillary Clinton’s meetings as Cabinet secretary after concluding the tweet fell short of AP standards by omitting essential context,” AP's vice president for standards John Daniszewski wrote in a blog post. “At the same time, we are revising our practices to require removal and correction of any AP tweets found not to meet AP standards, including tweets that contain information that is incorrect, misleading, unclear or could be interpreted as unfair, or having a problem in tone.”


The tweet in question linked to an investigation by the AP into how many Clinton Foundation donors also met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. “More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation,” the original tweet read in part.



What the tweet didn’t mention was that the AP analysis focused only on Clinton’s discretionary meetings with those who were not in the U.S. federal government or representatives of foreign governments, which likely made up the vast majority of the people Clinton met with as secretary of tate (though we don't know that yet because the State Department has not released Clinton's schedules for her time as secretary, something the AP has been fighting for). The tweet, and in some cases the story, was slammed by some media critics and many on the left.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/09/ap-deletes-clinton-foundation-tweet-227917#ixzz4JiCFBw4E

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Every other media called them on it 2 weeks ago. Nice AP.

[riversedge]

2. The damage is Done AP--you gave fodder to

the RW and Trumpsters. Shame on YOU

[Akamai]

8. Mayor Giuliani said that "this scandal could be worse

than Watergate."

Gee -- I wonder if he will now apologize.

What a lying sack of s###!

[still_one]

3. They should have left the tweet up, and followed with a massive apology how they screwed

up the story, misled and lied about it

[Hortensis]

4. I'll NEVER see an AP release without suspicion now.

They spread what amounts to an all-out lie around the planet. Bad feedback is good, but it doesn't change the character of those involved.

[Adrahil]

5. Thanks, assholes... maybe you can ...

help restore a reputation you besmirched as well. I won't hold my breath.

[skylucy]

6. AP has lost credibility. Also the MSM covered this as if it was true.Then

upon discovering that it was bogus, CNN,MSNBC did not make any real effort to undo the damage they had done. Disgusting.

[calimary]

7. Trying to wash the Ron Fournier stains out of their shirt fronts, I guess.

Too late. He's the guy several years ago who was hired to run the AP's Washington DC bureau and instituted a radical change in policy: issuing an edict to his staff that they should no longer worry about maintaining objectivity in their reporting... Basically he declared it was okay to have a point of view now, and slant your coverage.

I lay the blame squarely on him - and the upper-level jerks who saw fit to hire him. He has singlehandedly fucked the AP. Totally fucked it. Bye-bye sterling reputation. Bye-bye impeccable nonpartisanship. Bye-bye unassailable credibility.

Some stains are nearly impossible to remove.