http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PRIMARY_RDP?SITE=KTVB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
This story was ran on June 3rd before Barrack Obama has clinched the Democrat nomination. The Associated Press claimed that based off of the Superdelegate counts he officially had won. When you visit other news source sites it was all over the main page that Associated Press claimed he had won but it wasn't official. This news story shows bias in several ways. The first thing I thought when I saw they ran this was that the Associated Press wanted to be the first to run the story. Not only this but also that others would read the story they ran and also run it. Similar to the whole election debate in 2000 when John Kerry and President George. W. Bush ran against each other. Many news sources claim FOX News ran the numbers too early and in turn that is why Bush is in office. I don't know if this claim is true or not but when a news source runs a story early it can vastly affect the outcome of a race or even something small. Free publicity is good publicity. Therefore why not run a great story that everyone will read and catch on to. If the Associated Press wanted Hilary Clinton to win the nomination they probably wouldn't have ran the story so quickly. They could have waited for the other news sources to catch on. There is so much bias in the world, news and our lives that the news basically runs and controls what the citizens know and see. When the news comes on they know how to grab our attention. "Huge hurricane tonight at midnight off the coast! up next!" When they say this it grabs our attention. When in reality the hurricane is off the coast of Florida where no one will feel the affects. The news is smart and rich. They will keep growing unless we don't trust them. I don't know if the Associated Press supports Barrack Obama or not but when a story is run so early it is hard to not think that way.
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