AP Addresses The Thorny "Fournier Issue"

Now, FishbowlDC has learned that Ellen Hale, VP for Corporate Communications at the Assocaited Press, sent a memo to senior AP managers, in which she wrote: “As many of you know, some political groups and left-leaning blogs have aligned to organize a newspaper letter-writing campaign against AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier. The campaign started this weekend with an email writing push aimed at Kathleen Carroll and Mike Oreskes, but has now moved on to urge newspaper readers to write their local editors.”