To comply with that direction, the state party began a policy of only posting the first few paragraphs of AP stories, while making sure to clearly mark them as excerpts on the site. The state party does not use this excerpting policy with stories from any other news outlet. It would be happy to post AP stories in full on its Web site, and would have, had it not been instructed otherwise by The Associated Press.

Blake Zeff

Direction Party

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