Politico: The Grassy Knoll

Is AP a shill for the State Department and the CIA?

Posted from 911blogger.com blogs 72 days ago

A while back, I wrote a letter to my local newspaper, the Post-Star of Glens Falls New York. On Sunday, this letter became the subject of a column by the newspaper's editor. It begins: "We published a letter to the editor last month where a reader wrote that The Associated Press "...is not much more than a branch of the U.S. State Department or the CIA." The editor, Ken Tingley, goes on to publish what to my knowledge is an untruth: ""Years ago there was another competing wire service, United Press International, but it went out of business." My understanding is that the wire service changed ... (original story)