The liberal media love to portray themselves as the sole gatekeepers of truth and facts; and when they get called out for getting things wrong, they get very testy and indignant. The Associated Press flashed that attitude in a letter to Navy veteran Zachary Young, and in recent comments about the defamation suit against them (after they falsely claimed Young was engaged in “human smuggling” in Afghanistan). Young cited the AP’s comments in a recent motion for punitive damages.
Patrick Maks, the AP’s director of media relations and corporate communications, wrote off the lawsuit in comments made to left-leaning Newsweek on Friday:
“AP’s story was a factual and accurate report on the jury verdict finding in Zachary Young’s favor,” Patrick Maks, director of media relations and corporate communications at the Associated Press, told Newsweek on Friday….
