The AP's 'Professing'

The Associated Press likes this sentence about the Edwards-Hunter affair so much that it crops up in at least three stories under three different bylines.

A former Edwards campaign staff member professes to be the father.

But "professes" often suggests doubt, at least to me.

Given the accusations of political bias at the AP Washington bureau, maybe words should be chosen a little more carefully.

The Coverage

The Project for Excellence in Journalism looks at the huge disparity in political coverage. Glad we're out of the horse race business this year.

Clinton is the Big Winner Last Week in the Race for Coverage
Senator Hillary Clinton’s poll-defying Democratic primary victory in New Hampshire helped make her the leading campaign newsmaker last week, but the resurrection in the Granite State of John McCain’s once-dead campaign did not translate into similar largesse of media attention, according to a new study of media campaign coverage.
Meanwhile, the meaning of third place was also fungible last week. Mike Huckabee, a distant third in the GOP race, got sizably more media attention than did John Edwards among the Democrats.
And New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is not running, got nearly as much coverage for showing up at a conference in Oklahoma as Rudolph Giuliani did for finishing fourth among Republicans.