For the Associated Press, once a venerable wire service, the decline into irrelevancy has been a slow but steady slog decades in the making. But if you want the CliffsNotes version of how to destroy a 178-year-old news titan in one easy step, here’s a quote from today’s woke AP orbit that will serve nicely.
“When covering controversial or sensitive issues, it’s standard journalism practice to seek out opposing views to provide ‘balance’ to a story,” a style guide produced by NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists states. “However, there are times when ‘balance’ doesn’t further understanding of the issues or the story.”
The scare quotes around the word balance convey how infinitely removed strident progressive activism is from professional journalism. As Liberty Nation News noted in 2022, Jeff McMillan, the member of the…
