AP Fact Checking? No.

In an otherwise interesting report on the beginning of the Landis arbitration hearing, the AP again demonstrates how little fact checking goes into their reporting:

He [Landis] would be the first rider in the Tour’s 104-year history to be stripped of the title, and he says he’ll retire if he loses and can’t get the result overturned in appeals.

Powerful statement there, but the AP writer would get a disappointed moue from Alex Trebek. "Who is Maurice Garin?" would be the correct question. Just like the person who pulled America out of the Kyoto Protocols. Sorry, it wasn't Bush. It was the Senate in 1997, slapping cry-baby Al Gore down, 95-0. And journalists wonder why people are losing respect in them.