News wire feeling ire over Palin (Fact checking the AP)
EXCERPT AP wouldn't say how many reporters are typically assigned to fact-check. The agency has roughly 3,000 employees for news gathering. Palin supporters said she was being unfairly targeted for scrutiny. (AP's director of media relations, Paul)Colford said AP didn't fact-check Obama's two books, for example, because "neither of those books were published when he was a major player on the scene." His latest book was published in 2006, as he was being mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
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