AP offering two leads to some stories

We are not biased! But hey I got an idea lets have two versions of the same story. The first version will supposedly be with the straight facts. Yeah right, the AP would not know the facts even if it was their buildings that were the target on 9/11.

"The other will be the 'optional,' an alternative approach that attempts to draw in the reader through imagery, narrative devices, perspective or other creative means."

Creative means, oh that's right I do not live on the far east or west coast so I should not be able to decipher that one. Lies are lies, no matter how creative or falsely painted that they may be.

Why can’t anyone just stick with the FACTS of the story? That is all I want, give me the information of the incident with no colorful rosy glass crap and let me come to my on conclusions, Thank you very much!

The optional stories will only be available to AP’s print media customers. E&P includes an example of the differences:

Traditional
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners Thursday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government.

Optional
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) Yet again, almost as if scripted, a day of hope for a new, democratic Iraq turned into a day of tears as a bloody insurgent attack undercut a political step forward.

On Thursday, just as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad were telling reporters that they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government, a suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners in the northern city of Mosul.

So much for the perception that the media had learned it lesson about what the readers really want!