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DonViejo

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8. In 1985 I was the subject of some media attention...
Sun May 19, 2013, 05:45 PM
May 2013

in Massachusetts that worked it's way into becoming an AP story. The AP reporter pretty much re-worded a Boston Globe article but, rephrased it in such a way that caused me great discomfort. I phoned a friend that's a columnist at the Boston Globe to complain about it. He told he would see what he could do but, when he looked at the article and saw it was from the AP, he said, "there's nothing I can do about an AP article, we have to run it the way they wire it out, including the headline." My friend then went into a rant about the AP which really surprised me. Scot, my friend, told me the AP has stringers in every City/town that re-write articles appearing in the local media, submit it to AP and the stringer then hopes the story goes big. So, this AP report about a bias murder, may in fact, be by some stringer who re-words articles he's lifting from a local MSM reporter

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