# Who the hell is running the AP? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-running-the-ap/216580 "2003-12-02T21:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-running-the-ap/216580/1 "2003-12-02T21:49:28Z")
See this: [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/en/081002elvis&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=&e=4&a=0&t=&prev=3](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/en/081002elvis&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=&e=4&a=0&t=&prev=3) A photo of Elvis from the AP, captioned thusly: > [@](#): > > Elvis Presley performs in this 1971 file photo at an unknown location. Like Michael Jackson, who was arrested last week on child molestation charges, Presley started as a clean-cut singer with happy feet. He then descended into a bloated, sequin-clad state, in love with drugs, guns and police badges and prone to shooting out the TV screen if he didnt like the program. (AP Photo) Fuh? Is it just me, or is this stretching the limits of journalistic objectivity? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-running-the-ap/216580/2 "2003-12-02T22:36:36Z")
There was an article on the AP wire about unusual stars, which featured that Elvis line. I’m guessing the photo is to go with the article. (Which was an interesting one-who knew Brando kissed Larry King?) Ah, here it is: [Jackson is the Epitome of Celebrity Weirdness](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031125/ap_on_en_ot/michael_jackson_weird_celebs_1) ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-running-the-ap/216580/3 "2003-12-03T06:16:41Z")
The news director at the radio station I used to work at had a sign that said “remember, you can’t be cheap without the AP and you can’t be stupid without the UPI”. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-running-the-ap/216580/4 "2003-12-03T08:43:54Z")
Yeah, photos often pop up on the AP that appear weird or random, but, as **mobo85** pointed out, it’s usually to accompany some special-interest story that’s running. For that matter, the photo I see when I click your link is young Elvis from waist up, with a blonde under his right arm and a brunette under his left, both girls kissing his cheeks while he looks decidedly nonplussed about the whole thing. The caption I see is different from the one you quote: > [@](#): > > A hand out photograph received on December 2, 2003 shows the late U.S. rock pioneer Elvis Presley standing with two models at the Cleveland Hockey Arena in the U.S. in 1956. Candid photographs of Elvis and other 1950s rock pioneers, Buddy Holly and Bobby Darin, snapped by Lew Allen a high school photographer and boxed away for 40 years, went on display for the first time on Tuesday at the ‘Fingerprints of Elvis’ exhibition in Liverpool, northern England. Don’t know if that’s the same photo you were looking at, but it ain’t the same caption. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-running-the-ap/216580/5 "2003-12-03T17:02:05Z")
No, mine had the fat elvis of the 70s.