Associated Press wire service going down the drain

The Associated Press (AP) boasts of being the oldest, trusted, fastest and unbiased delivery service of global news. It has 243 bureaus in 97 countries and one of them is in Sri Lanka. It has a worldwide staff of 4,1000 journalists and two of them are Ruwan Weerakoon and Bharatha Mallawarachi, AP's Colombo-based correspondents.

First consider the two reports of Ruwan Weerakoon on the same incident. Readers are requested to notice the difference between the two opening paragraphs filed by the same AP writer on the same incident..

Associated Press, Mon April 23, 2007 16:58 EDT . RUWAN WEERAKOON - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) ...............
The government has already ousted the insurgents from bases in eastern Sri Lanka - , and .......

Associated Press, Mon April 23, 2007 18:23 EDT . RUWAN WEERAKOON - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP)................
The government, which is dominated by ethnic Sinhalese, has already ousted the Tamil Tiger insu............

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