Ron Fournier was for sale before he took over the Washington Bureau of the AP. He interviewed with the McCain campaign in 2007. We should not be surprised at how biased of his coverage of the 2008 campaign is. We've seen his ideological slip, and it's conservative Republican.
We were right: AP Must Fire Ron Fournier
Politico: One of Fournier's job options: McCain
dday at Hullabaloo: Media Industrial Complex
dailykos: Ron Fournier (AP Hack) Was Negotiating McCain Campaign Position
You can not negotiate with a campaign for a job, then report on it as a "neutral observer" unless you have no standards at all. We should apply pressure on the AP to do the right thing and fire him now. More importantly, his colleagues in the profession should be leading this fight. He not only writes, but assigns stories.
Everything the AP says and does between now and November is utterly tainted by Fournier not disclosing his conflict of interest.
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