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Associated Press Still Doesn't Care About the Truth

It's a logical fallacy to argue a false inference.  It's also poor form (unless you're a criminal defense lawyer, in which case it may be ethically required).  You argue a false inference when you give readers just enough facts that they will draw a false inference.  That's exactly what the Associated Press did to Texas lawyer Matthew C. Ryan.  An Austin, Texas, attorney who has the same name as a defendant in an Internet libel suit that has drawn national media attention has asked an attorney for the plaintiffs to amend the complaint in that suit to clarify who the defendant actually is. ... Ryan the lawyer says his troubles began Aug. 6, when a reporter with the Associated Press called to ask whether he was the Matthew C...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 17, 2008 (boomark / email).