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Glad to hear they have some. AP's unhappy because the Army photoshopped in an American flag in that headshot of Gen. Dunwoody. Which was kind of dumb of someone in the Army, because it looks hokey and contrived. The AP, on the otherhand, is hardly in a position to squawk ...
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A Blog For All — AP supposedly found religion and decided that a photo edited image of General Dunwoody meant that the AP would no longer run photos taken by the Pentagon . That image edited in the background of a US flag. It was wrong for the Pentagon to do so, but it would be nice if the AP lived up to its own so-called code of conduct. The AP has a long history of running photos with clearly biased captions, photos from dubious sources including terrorists. They routinely ran photos that were nothing more than propaganda against Israel during the Hizbullah war despite clear evidence that the ...

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