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Analysis: Media Too Critical of 'Going Rogue'?
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently
"Going Rogue" is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska
governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date
and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and
taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements
Updated November 18, 2009
AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check'
by Robert Shaffer
, FOXNews.com
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good
journalism, but the Associated Press' treatment of Palin's book seems an
unprecedented move at the wire service.
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently
"Going Rogue" is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska
governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date
and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and
taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it
also speculated into Palin's motives for writing "Going Rogue: An American
Life," stating as fact that the book "has all the characteristics of a
pre-campaign manifesto."
Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post titled "Really? Still Making Things
Up?"
"Imagine that," the post read. "11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources
to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check'
what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover
costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."
AP spokesman Paul Colford said the organization, with more than 4,000
employees, and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, has the
luxury of putting multiple reporters on major stories. He confirmed 11 people
worked on the story, but not all full-time. He refused to say, however, if
similar number of journalists were assigned to review other political books, or
if Palin has been treated differently.
"One byline appeared on AP's Fact Check. Others at AP with knowledge of
specific areas covered in the book contributed in varying degrees to preparing
the Fact Check quickly on Friday," his statement read.
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good
journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new
for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the
late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama
released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton.
The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.
The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't
fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.
The AP, however, regularly writes "fact checks" for major political speeches,
such as a September health care speech by President Obama.
Doug Underwood, a University of Washington journalism professor who covered
Washington politics in the late 1970s for Gannett, said Palin brings some
negative attention on herself with a history of bad interviews and
misstatements. In addition, the press cannot ever be perfectly consistent or
fair, he said.
Still, the media treated Biden and Palin differently, he said.
Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was
chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only
received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft
deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in
his book.
Palin is not the standard presidential possibility for 2012, Underwood said.
"She's a figure who's a politician, but also a part of popular culture," he
said.
Palin supporters believe 11 reporters poring over every word of her book is
excessive- and further proof of the media's obsession and maltreatment of the
hockey mom from Wasilla.
"They're obsessed with trying to discredit her," said Adrienne Ross, New York
state organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. "Because she's a
conservative woman, they make fun of her accent, comment about her looks. She
doesn't come in the package they want her to come in."
Meanwhile, Palin is complaining about the cover of Newsweek that shows her
posing in sports gear, including short runner's shorts, accompanied by the
headline: "How do you solve a problem like Sarah?"
The photo was originally published in the August 2009 issue of Runners World.
Palin accused the magazine of being "sexist" for using the photo out of context.
"When it comes to Sarah Palin, this 'news' magazine has relished focusing on
the irrelevant rather than the relevant," she wrote on her Facebook page. "The
out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now."
IT'S SO SAD TO SEE THAT ,
THE US MEDIA TODAY IS BECOMING THE THE ENEMY OF THE US ARMY , LEANING TO THE
COMMUNIST SUPPORT AND ANTI TRADTIONAL AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT..
THE US MEDIA REMAINS SILENT ON THIS ?
US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INSISTS ON CAMBODIA INDPENDENCE. 1988
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
....We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...."
"Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou
En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter
would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the
"Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China
Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177
UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
5. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by
vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese
forces from Cambodia.
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
BURY...
THE KHMER KILLERS IN CAMBODIA FROM 1970-2008 ARE THESE VIETNAMESE
1. A VIETNAMESE CALLED DUCH : The picture was of Comrade Duch, the former head
of Tuol Sleng prison.
There, during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule, 17,000 men, women and
children were interrogated and tortured. Then they were killed, their bodies
tossed into mass graves.Tuesday, 18 November 2008By Philippa Fogarty BBC News
2. A VIETNAMESE CALLED HOR NAM HONG, A KHMER ROUGE CADRE, A SON OF A VIETMINH,
AS DIRECTOR OF BENGTRABEK SCHOOL ( 800 KHMER ELITE RECALLED AND DIED UNDER HIM )
Mr. Hor Namhong (L) (vietnamese)
. Gen. Hok Lundy( VIETNAMESE) deceased
Radio Free Asia
By Chea Makara
17th November, 2008
National Police Commissioner, Gen. Hok Lundy, (pictured) A VIETNAMESE , has
died in a helicopter crash on the night of the 9th of November, 2008 at the age
of 51.
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
BURY
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