They Have Standards - And They're Double

"Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently 'Going Rogue' is no normal book.

When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.

Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy,...either book by Barack Obama,...."

-- Robert Shaffer, giving us eleven new reasons not to trust the mainstream media - Where's the AP's aggressive fact-checking of Oprah's daily program? - not that we ever did trust the mainstream media, except for FOX News.