Ron Fournier named chief of AP's Washington bureau (was acting chief)

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ron Fournier, a former White House correspondent, national political writer and online political editor for The Associated Press, has been named chief of the AP's Washington bureau.

The appointment of Fournier, who had served as acting bureau chief since May, was announced Friday by Mike Oreskes, the AP's managing editor for U.S. news.

"The next Washington bureau chief of the AP must preserve the authority and standards we have spent 160 years building, while at the same time leading us into a new and rapidly changing world of journalism," Oreskes told a staff meeting in the bureau. "Fortunately, we have the perfect candidate at hand."

"There are few places in all of journalism more respected or closely watched than the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. And there are few moments in history when the AP's coverage of Washington has mattered more," Oreskes said. "The whole world really is watching Washington and American politics."


Read more: http://www.ap.org/pages/about/whatsnew/wn_080108a.html

[rfranklin]

1. A sad day for journalism....

when the AP bureau chief believes that partisan commentary equals good journalism.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicon propagandist gets plum corporate media catapult

Shame on AP. Grief for an America interested in unslanted truth.

AP is totally in the republicon homelander crapper with this move. They merit no more trust, no more respect.

[grasswire]

3. Fournier has been in the tank for years now

And he was so close to the McCain campaign that they asked him to join it.

Just another collaborateur.

[AlexDeLarge]

4. Still retains the title

of acting journalist/reporter, though.

[Zorra]

5. Just when I thought Associated Propagandists could not sink any

lower as obvious RW shills for big oil, big pharma, insurance companies, banks, and the republicans that represent them, they go and promote Rightie Ron to the position of DC Propaganda Minister.

Jeebus, our media in the US is pathetic.

[badgervan]

6. Ap Joins the Justice Department....

... as two formerly trustworthy organizations that have now lost the trust and respect of over half our country. The folks calling the shots must be nuts... or diehard rethugs.

[Doctor_J]

7. Why doesn't the article mention that his love letters to Rove were recently discovered?

:wtf:

and they wonder why no one reads the papers any more.

[struggle4progress]

8. AP -- cutting down on facts to pack in even more opinion

[Cha]

9. So rove's pimp is the head of AP..the major news outlet in the US.

They already twist words to brainwash for fascists..no stories will make it through that favor Dems.