Comments for AP Fact Check Should be Billed to Romney Campaign Big Time at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18707 The trade deficit has to be closed eventually, but it doesn't have to be with manufacturing. The US is still a resource-rich country, and resource-poor countries like Japan can buy raw materials from us. Closing the trade gap would not guarantee full employment, but it may require a drop in our standard of living, if truly free international trade is allowed. Free trade would tend to even out wage levels and standards of living. - skeptonomist Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:23:37 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18705 Krugman said he expected members of the media to bend over backwards to find some false equivalency of lies and distortions between the two parties in order to seem "balanced" and "non-partisan." - K A Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:55:51 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18704 Who, exactly, is AP? Who makes the decisions of what to cover and how to cover it? Yes, I know, they're an institution. But I have wondered about this since the summer a few years ago when I began to notice odd little AP pieces, usually in the buried pages of our hometown newspaper, which appeared to be news stories but which weren't tied to any event and which were often free of direct quotes, too. I had just graduated from a journalism program at that point, and my J profs would have given me a big old goose-egg if I'd tried to hand in such a fact-free assignment. Their website says "...AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, as a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members..." Hmph. Co-op or not, there are always people in control of such a big enterprise, or it couldn't function at all. The board and management is listed on their website, but I don't know enough or have the time to look into them. Perhaps these little non-stories are merely a niche product that some editors like to pick up to fill space and plump up their world view. But still, that they appeared under the AP imprimatur bothered me then and still does. Noni - Noni Mausa Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:50:28 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18703 Learning about the budget is not that hard, but too few journalists do their homework. This is the best explanation on why reporting on budget issues in general is so poor. - bakho Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:45:14 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18702 Two things bother me - might be subjects for columns. Why does anyone bother reporting on the Stock Market, other than as a huge gambling establishment. It has almost nothing to do with the condition of business (IPO's the exception, I think). Second from where do these "expectations" come from against which things like the unemployment numbers are compared. Why should I care that these people who always seem to be wrong, predict anything? Somehow the fact that they are wrong ("didn't meet the market expectations") would seem to be a reason to fire these people not go on and on about how bad they are at making predictions. I'll take my answer off the air, as they say. - xteeth Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:24:03 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18701 That's pretty incredible. You would think that one would at least need to achieve some minimal level of qualification to be a media factchecker, but apparently not. - JSeydl Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:58:57 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18697 Factcheckers can't make up for the deficiencies of journalism if the people doing the fact checking are the same people who created the need for fact checking in the first place. - Memekiller Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:29:03 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18696 This is slightly off topic, but related: Larry Summers argues against austerity in this video: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te_FK-jz0WA&feature=player_embedded[/url] - David Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:18:10 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/ap-factcheck-should-be-billed-to-romney-campaign-bigtime#comment-18689 Luckily for Obama, the Romney campaign will not be dictated by fact checkers, so I'm sure they'll ignore this. - David Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:18:15 +0100