What’s News, AP?

Weekly Example of Media Bias — Posted on February 21, 2007

Amazing. The AP puts everything over the wire … well, almost everythng.

Realizing we don’t yet know all the details, apparently the AP has decided to not put the story of a Muslim cab driver running down two students [on Feb. 18] after a religious dispute over the wire. Why might that be? They can’t all be writing about Anna Nicole Smith?
[View the story at wsmv.com, FOXNews.com or KnoxNews.com.]

Go to NewsBusters.org for the original posting.

Questions

1. Is the Associated Press' decision to not run the story of a Muslim cab driver in Nashville who tried to run over two college students after arguing with them about religion an example of bias by omission and/or story selection? Explain your answer.

2. Do you think that the AP would have run the story if the cab driver had been Christian or Jewish? Explain your answer.