New on the Wire: AP to Offer Two Leads for Some Stories

[conjur]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp..._display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000844185

This is certainly a sign of the infotainment/propagandist times. Although, it's not really a surprise considering the conservative ownership of the AP. I'm sure Chomsky is spitting nails about now.

He's an example:

Traditional

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners Thursday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government.

Optional

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) Yet again, almost as if scripted, a day of hope for a new, democratic Iraq turned into a day of tears as a bloody insurgent attack undercut a political step forward.

On Thursday, just as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad were telling reporters that they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government, a suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners in the northern city of Mosul.

 

[3chordcharlie]

If my newspaper ever, once, printed the second version of that story, I would cancel my subscription. (oh wait, I already did)