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AP writer Matthew Rosenberg’s journalistic ethics
The Editor Associated Press New York, N.Y. Let’s take a look at an example of the latest propagation of journalistic ethics by AP writer, Mr. Matthew Rosenberg. On November 1st, 2007, under the title, “Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers Rebels Run A Global Fundraising And Weapons-Smuggling Network,” he gives his view of the so-called fundraising of the Liberation Tigers rebel outfit as a news item to the international audience. He opens his news item (not analysis) with the following: “He’s known as KP, and he’s exactly the kind of man you would imagine running a shadowy smuggling network that stretches from the beaches of northern Sri Lanka to the skyscrapers of New…