Via Michelle Malkin, check out this post by Mary Katharine Ham on the evolution of the Associated Press' report on today's arrest of Mother Sheehan outside the White House. Ham's post appears to simply begin as a quick link to the story of the arrest, but keeps updating to include the evolving language in the intro to the news report. Thus (with Ham's emphases):
1:57 p.m.-- Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House.As a matter of fact, I actually read this first version online while I was at work and was somewhat surprised at the employment of such an unromantic verb.
3 p.m.-- Cindy Sheehan, the California woman driven by her son's death in Iraq to re-ignite the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House.Yeah, okay... Less than an hour later, it's:
Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who became a leader of the anti-war movement following her son's death in Iraq, was arrested Monday along with dozens of others protesting outside the White House.See, I'm not saying that this is a journalistic scandal, friends.
I'm saying it's standard operating procedure.