Comment: AP these days is a not-for-profit organization owned by a c

Subject: AP these days is a not-for-profit organization owned by a c

Comment:

See Original Content on OpEd News in article titled "America's party-line corporate media: The Democratic Primary Race Has Been Called Before 15% of the Country Votes"

AP these days is a not-for-profit organization owned by a consortium of big corporate news organizations, most of which have been big Clinton backers, like the NYTimes, Scripps, Gannett, Univision, Hearst, the LA Times and others.

That is would come out for Clinton early and try to influence the last big primary voting in Clinton's favor should surprise nobody.

AP in doing it's "reporting" on this story about new superdelegate support for Clinton used only anonymous sources. They did not name the superdelegates who had turned Clinton backers, which is pretty shoddy journalism by any standard. In real journalism, sources are only granted immunity in an article if they have a legitimate fear of suffering job loss or some other damage if their names come out. There was no such excuse here, so it should not have been allowed, and of course makes the whole story sound questionable.

Meanwhile, there was a report of a named North Carolina superdelegate, Pat CCotham, a member of the DNC and a county commissioner in NC, who switched from Hillary to Bernie yesterday because "the polls show" that Sanders has a better chance of defeating Trump than does Clinton. Why does she get named and the new Clinton backers hide behind the 'unidentified source' label?

Dave Lindorff

founding editor of ThisCantBeHappening.net