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    The AP: Using Emotional Descriptives to Demean GOP

    Support to the American left and to denigrate the right

    The AP: Using Emotional Descriptives to Demean the GOP

    By Warner Todd Huston
    Tuesday, June 22, 2010

    One of the best ways to cajole a reader into accepting a point of view is to use emotional descriptives in writing. It is the difference between opinion style editorials — like what I write — and straight news — like what a wire service like the Associated Press is supposed to be writing. Unfortunately, the AP has been adding ever larger amounts of emotional language to its news and, not surprisingly, that emotion is used to give support to the American left and to denigrate the right. A recent AP story about the rise of the new conservative movement in Wisconsin is a perfect example of that emotional language used to attack Republicans.

    The story, “Wisconsin’s Democrats have got the bluesâ€
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    Yes and this works very well in a society like ours where the youth are taught not to listen to the wisdom of the elders.

    I am watching and waiting. We need some major lawsuits against some major "news" organizations to ditch the bias and get back to reporting "just the facts ma'am."

    We also need to re-instate that law that the PP Pronoun Preoccupied President rescinded about giving equal time to all candidates. Plus did his wealthy self ever reimburse us for his 21 day trial?

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