the AP is full of morons

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25740110/>1=43001

Dead penguins wash ashore on Brazil's beaches
Most of the more than 400 mammals found in past two months were babes

latebloomer, Monday, 21 July 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

or maybe MSNBC wrote that part. either way, some idiot needs to be fired.

latebloomer, Monday, 21 July 2008 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

my favorite instance of the ap being asleep at the switch was a headline about tyson gay advancing to the finals of the 100 meters in the olympic track qualifiers. apparently the ap uses some sort of auto-replace software to keep out potentially politically incorrect words. he was referred to in the headline and the accompanying story as "tyson homosexual".

no one caught it.

chicago kevin, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/ap0630.png

chicago kevin, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

"one news now" is run by a right-wing outfit called the american family association. they're the ones whose word filter got trigger-happy.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:57 (seventeen years ago)

They are propagating the dangerous stereotype that homosexuals misjudge the finish in the opening heat.

Abbott, Monday, 21 July 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

original link's been updated

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25740110/>1=43001

Dead penguins wash ashore on Brazil's beaches
Most of the more than 400 birds found in past two months were babes

StanM, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

strangely, BBC had it thus:

Dead penguins wash ashore on Brazil's beaches
Most of the more than 400 women found in past two months were babes

J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

lololol @ the tyson gay thing

Jordan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

women = penguins. Who knew?

Bimble, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Women lay eggs? I knew it!

StanM, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

"babes"

Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

excellent work on the lol britishes, j0hn!

mh, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)


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