“The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn’t go through our standard editing process. We are looking into how that happened,” AP spokesperson Nicole Meir told The Verge in an email.
News reports (and fact-checks specifically) are often worded in a way that carefully threads a needle — there’s a difference between saying something definitively didn’t happen versus saying there’s no evidence of it. My guess is that the AP headline was the problem here because it claims to debunk something that is unknowable.
AP retracts an article saying that JD Vance didn’t fuck a couch. 🤣
We cannot for certain prove if Mr Vance has indeed conclusively fucked said couch or not. The AP apologizes for providing a potentially inaccurate statement that Mr Vance did not fuck that couch.
I like this part:
But there’s also technically no proof that Vance didn’t have sex with a couch — there’s no way a journalist could truly know that. He just didn’t write about it.
We all need to take note that couches are incapable of consent. This was not a loving act. JD Vance raped that couch and who knows how many others.
Somehow, the soft furnishing #meto campaign failed to get any real traction.
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Somehow, the soft furnishing #meto campaign failed to get any real traction.
It’s 'cause they’ve got those fuzzy pads on their legs. Makes 'em slide around.
Given the questionable state of the media in the US, I kind of wish they’d go all out and just start using Trumpisms.
- “We have been unable to prove that Trump isn’t a pedophile”
- “We’re not saying Vance stole money from orphans’ homes, but some people are”
You know, that sort of stuff. It couldn’t be worse than 2 weeks talking about Biden’s age while ignoring that Trump is only 3 years younger; or jumping on every Biden brain-fart while ignoring Trump’s constant stream of incomprehensible mouth diarrhea.
Edit forgot a “t”
Some people say he’s a pedophile. Good people, the best people. Trust me, believe me.
They tell me, with tears in their eyes, “Sir,” they tell me, “That Vance guy’s a pedophile. He’s no good.” Lots of people are saying it.
I spotted it here but it was already gone from AP’s site, so I was wondering what that was all about. Now the removal of the news of the weird denial is now news itself - Newsception!
