CNSNews.com pays a fee to the Associated Press for the right to publish AP wire copy on its website. And what does the AP get from CNS (and its parent, the Media Research Center)? Nothing but ingratitude.
A Sept. 19 CNS article by Susan Jones on President Obama’s deficit reduction plan contained this line: “As for Obama’s call to put ‘country above party,’ even liberal media outlets don’t see it that way.” And what is the only “liberal media outlet” that Jones cites? The Associated Press. At no point does Jones offer any evidence that the AP is “liberal.”
Then, Jones rather hilariously includes this footnote at the end: “The Associated Press contributed some of the information used in this report.”
CNS is paying AP for the privilege of insulting it. Talk about ingratitude. If the AP is so “liberal,” why is paying to run the AP’s news on its website?
Even more funny: The sign-up box for CNS’ email newsletter contains this exhortation: “Be the first to know all of the news that the liberal media are hiding.” It’s laughable for CNS to make that claim when much of the news on the CNS website is directly from that very same “liberal media” it purports to despise.
Either CNS has no scruples and is simply paying for AP copy to create a veneer of credibility it wouldn’t have otherwise, or it simply doesn’t care about the logical inconsistency of publicly bashing a news organization it pays to obtain the content it’s bashing.
If the AP is so horrible, CNS should cancel its contract.