AP Under Fire for Palin Fact-Check

The Associated Press is struggling to defend its decision to assign a fleet of 11 reporters to pore over the facts in Sarah Palin's best-selling memoir "Going Rogue: An American Life."

The news agency was thrown on the defensive after critics -- including Palin herself -- charged she was being singled out for investigation when the AP savaged her book as inaccurate.

They noted that President Obama, whose two best-selling memoirs helped propel him to national fame, didn't receive any fact-checking.

Last week, the AP sent news organizations a story headlined "Fact check: Palin's book goes wrong on some facts," citing several discrepancies in accounts of her tenure as governor of Alaska and other matters.

It carried one byline and listed 10 other writers who contributed to it.

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