This morning I caught a quick uninformative AP blurb off the main Yahoo page mentioning the federal investigation of a US Representative this morning.
It briefly mentioned the investigation but not in any detail. As a matter of fact one of the missing details was the Congressman's, Chaka Fattah, party affiliation. You have to get to the third paragraph to even get to his name.
I did a Yahoo News search for Chaka Fattah were all newspaper articles that inked back to this AP story, but all also included a reference to it being from the Philadephia Inquirer. So off to Google News for a search for Chaka Fattah and at the top of the page was the link to the original news article the AP got their blurb from.
Besides identifying the Congressman by name in paragraph one, they mention his party when you get to paragraph four. It also mentions his membership on the House Ways and Means Committee and the millions in earmarks he secured for the group he founded and is now under investigation.
So why would the AP "reporter" who based their story on the Enquirer story omit such pertinent details? Sloppy, lazy journalism? Or unabashed bias? And why would Yahoo, who claim they just act as a publisher and are not content providers, not link a search to one of the nation's leading newspapers?
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