The Associated Press, from whom the Durango Herald gets much of its news, has taken a very leftist slant to reporting the news in recent years.
Many times the AP has been caught fabricating the news, with some of the worst instances having been during the Iraq war. Very few stories by the Associated Press can be relied upon to be objectively factual, yet the Durango Herald, without discussing the bias of the AP, continues to publish their stories.
It would be nice if the Herald did an article explaining why it continues to forward false news to its readers.
The story the AP reported on June 27 about a meeting between the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and the CEO of Dow Chemical has been proven to be false. Such a meeting never happened. The AP tried to ignore the fact that it published a false story (again), but has now conceded that such a meeting never took place.
But the damage is done, isn’t it? Where’s the correction by the Herald and an explanation why it continues to use the AP as a supposedly objective source of the news?
Mike Sigman
Durango
Editor’s note: The Associated Press correction made on July 3 can be viewed at http://bit.ly/2vYGxUG. The Durango Herald correction appeared on July 19 and can be viewed at http://bit.ly/2uX5Fhs.
