Critics reacted to the attack the day after the AP story.

The AP story reported on the vote as follows:

Following is the AP story from this morning:

Why does the Sunday paper contain such a poor sports section little news by your staff of any Saturday events, and many rehashed AP stories.

(To read the AP story about all this, click here.)

Indeed, AP stories are the backbone of many major news sources.

Not all newspapers print the AP stories in full, so they aren't true duplicates, but close enough.

The AP story then listed both the deceased and the injured and where the injured were taken for medical treatment.

According to an AP story, McCain plans to spend $1 billion on income-tax cuts for the nation's best teachers.

Soon you had a link to an AP story then about two hours later you had an article by a Times reporter.