TheAssociated Presswants you to believe it is the last neutral institution in American journalism. It claims to have no agenda and just reports the facts.

Then you readhow AP writes about politics, and you realize the "report the facts" thing falls apart once a story touches a topic where the left-wing media has decidedthere is only one acceptable moral posture.

Take AP’s recentWinter Olympics storyinvolving Chloe Kim, Eileen Gu, andAmerican freeskier Hunter Hess. The AP says, in the first paragraph, that U.S. President Donald Trump "bashed" Hess over "the U.S. president’s heightened crackdown on immigrants." That framing is not neutral.

The AP used clearly loaded language about President Donald Trump and "immigration enforcement" in reporting tied to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

AP is immediately setting the tone for how it wants the audience to feel because the outlet said "immigrant crackdown," which it knows is an incorrect framing of the issue. Trump, his administration and ICE aren't "cracking down" on legal immigrants. They are actively trying to root out illegal immigrants who entered the country en masse under the Biden presidency.

But AP didn't stop there. Later in the story, the author writes that the crackdown "disrupted thousands of lives of immigrants and U.S. citizens." Once again, AP is telling the reader how to feel. They are painting a picture of legal immigrants and U.S. citizens as targets of ICE; it is not accurate to imply ICE targets legal immigrants and citizens, even if they are sometimes affected by ICE enforcement operations.

The bigger issue is that the AP is a wire service. Its phrasing gets copied and pasted across the country on many major websites and in major newspapers. So, when the AP decides the story is about an "immigrant crackdown," that decision becomes the default frame for readers who never stop to ask what exactly is being described.

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The quote selection follows the same pattern.

Hess is the center of this controversy, yet AP gives readers one line: "Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S." This is the only Hess quote in the entire story that's ostensibly about the controversy initially created by his comments.

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