Who Hosed The AP This Time?

Not content to take their ledes from sometimes dubious stringers in Iraq, the AP seems to have developed a taste for picking up content from dubious UK tabloid sites: Nov. 7

PARIS WILL SAVE BLOTTO JUMBOS

The Dr Dolittle of Hollywood is used to seeing her boozy mates in and out of rehab. But Paris, 26, is now turning her attention to India, where grey trunks have developed a fondness for ale.

Then it started turning up on various European blogs.

Fast forward to today - six days later: The story seems to have taken six days to trickle up via mostly UK-based on line sites before making it into the actual headlines. I knew the Hollywood writers were on strike, they must have taken a couple layers of editors with them!

GAUHATI, India _ Kill BC-People-Paris Hilton. Lori Berk, a publicist (AP) - for Hilton, says she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.
The AP