Tilt
at around evening time on Friday, the 12th of September 2003 by Chad
Looking at Google news for the day. There are three stories shown about the Democrats in the Texas legislature losing their lawsuit. Lets visit these three headlines:
Federal Judges Reject Texas Dems’ Lawsuit is the first one. This is fine.
Lawsuit to block Texas redistricting thrown out is second, and its also fine.
Ruling partly goes against Democrats seems to tell you something else however. That the story is different, that there was some merit in the case. Clicking on the link however, it reads the exact same words as the other two stories. A complete loss. Their suit has no merit, blah blah blah. All three articles are Associated Press, but what different headlines. Doesn’t even make any sense at all. Maybe the AP should require headlines actually match what the story is.
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September 13th, 2003 at 3:22 am
This is a standard operating procedure for the Associated Press. They will modify not just the headline, but facts, polls, etc. They seem to alter the stories based on geographic location. I would not consider them a legitimate news source.