Very sickening display of AP liberal bias.

 

 

There are 2 screen shots below that I took from the same URL.  Initially I saw the Headline

 

"AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US"

 

Being skeptical of that headline I clicked the link.  The first screen shot is from the first time I clicked the link.  Once you started reading the story it became apparent the headline was dishonest.  In the story as you read further it stated

 

""And yet, the percentage of Americans saying the country is headed in the right direction rose to 48 percent, up from 40 percent in February. Forty-four percent say the nation is on the wrong track."

"The AP-GfK Poll was conducted April 16-20 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media. It involved telephone interviews on landline and cell phones with 1,000 adults nationwide. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points."

 

So my thinking was while the Headline is not technically "false" many would read it that we are all big happy united family under Obama.
48% to 44% plus the +/- 3.1 sampling error margin is hardly a consensus.  A more honest headline would be.

"AP Poll: Americans divided on Obama, direction of US"

In the same original article ..

"_Nearly 80 percent believe that the rising federal debt will hurt future generations, and Obama is getting mixed reviews at best for his handling of the issue."

 

I had kept the browser open (from screen shot 1) as I was writing on another website about the dishonesty of the headline and quoting the story, my contention was that the headline was seen by MILLIONS in their browser, but there likely is only a small percentage that would actually read the article and only see the headline.  In a web portal like Yahoo the headlines show up but you hve to click to get the story.

 

After I posted my comments about the bias and un-truth I re-read my posting.  I clicked the URL in the website posting that I gave for reference to that headline, and when it came up in a new browser window I noticed it had changed the headline and kinda re-arranged the story.   The overall story was basically the same, just the headline was "toned down" a bit it appears.  The new headline is still "spin" in my opinion but they took out the blatant Obama love "plug".

 

The new headline is "AP Poll: After Obama's 100 days, US on right track"

 

Not sure why this was done, but if notice the URL in the browser they are the same, and by the same authors. Clearly this was a retraction, but it wasn't noted in the second story that it was retracted or updated.  Perhaps AP's management saw it and pulled it before the "backlash", or someone else saw it and questioned AP about the blatant deception?

 

Note that these are screen captures so the full article was longer than the screen capture so some of  the text body is truncated .  These are not altered photos.

 

The original headline and story:

 

 

The altered headline and story:

 

 

AP's got some explaning to do.