Associated Depressed (Associated Press nickname)

The Associated Press (AP) is a news agency founded in 1846 and headquartered in New York City. The nickname “Associated Depressed” has been popularized by conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin and has been cited in print since at least December 2004.
 
Other Associated Press nicknames include “Disassociated Press” (since at least 1950), “Associated Propaganda” (since at least November 1999), “Absolutely Pathetic” (since at least June 2006), “American Pravda” (since at least August 2008) and “Administration’s Press” (since at least October 2011).
   
   
Wikipedia: Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative.
 
As of 2005, the news collected by the AP is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television and radio broadcasters. The photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The Associated Press operates 243 news bureaus, and it serves at least 120 countries, with an international staff located all over the world.
 
Associated Press also operates The Associated Press Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. The AP Radio also offers news and public affairs features, feeds of news sound bites, and long form coverage of major events.
     
Associated Press
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The Associated Press (“AP”) is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. On any given day, more than half the world’s population sees news from the AP. Founded in 1846, the AP today is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering. The AP considers itself to be the backbone of the world’s information system, serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television, and online customers with coverage in text, photos, graphics, audio and video.
 
Headquartered in New York, the AP’s mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability, and objectivity with reports that are accurate balanced and informed. About 3,700 employees – two-thirds of them newsgatherers – work in more than 300 locations worldwide.
     
Conservapedia: Mark Levin
Mark Reed Levin (born September 21, 1957) is a Constitutional lawyer, president of the the prestigious Landmark Legal Foundation in Washington D.C., a top-rated nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host and a best selling non-fiction author.
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The Mark Levin Lexicon
Levin holds disdain for the mainstream media and the politicians who pander to them. He often likes to refer to them in a derogatory and humorous way. It is Levin’s style that distinguishes himself from other radio personalities.
 
. New York Times = New York Slimes, Washington Post = Washington Compost, Associated Press = Associated Depressed, Huffington Post = Huffington Puffington Compost
     
NCAAbbs
Chicago Rocket
12-19-2004, 08:22 PM
EMU officials would not answer the question asked by the Associated dePressed reporter when he asked them if they thought this would give them a chance to actually beat Toledo on the field.
 
Digital Brownshirt
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Three and a Half Months until Football Season
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“Economy Grows at Slowest Pace in Two Years” and “Dow Loses 128 Points on Weak GDP Report” raged the Associated Depressed.
     
Dissident Voice
EXCLUSIVE REPORT
Rejected Jokes From Laura Bush’s Monologue
by Arthur Creosote
Associated Depressed Writer
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 3, 2005
The Associated Depressed has learned that an anonymous White House staffer tried to sneak the following jokes into Laura Bush’s now famous monologue at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night.
 
Confederate Yankee
December 04, 2006
Associated/Depressed
The Associated Press scandal-without-a-catchy-name* continues today, as Tom Zeller Jr, of the NY Times bends over backwards to provide cover for the AP’s abortive attempts to brush aside the continuing criticism of their reporting of an incident where mosques and people reputedly burned during a Shiite rampage in a Sunni enclave in Baghdad.