CNN drops AP wire service (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Yahoo News ^ | June 21, 2010 | Michael Calderone

[abb]

CNN will no longer use Associated Press content as part of the network's news coverage, according a memo obtained by Yahoo! News.

CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton notified staff of the move Monday, writing that "the content we offer will be distinctive, compelling and, I am proud to say, our own."

"Beyond the obvious business reasons for this operating shift — the content we spend our money to create should be the content we present, and less reliance on outside sources will mean more to invest in our organization — there are other important motivations," Walton wrote. "CNN-exclusive content will further differentiate our platforms in the media marketplace. It will provide consumers with the unique news and information experience they expect from CNN. And it will make us more creative, resourceful and collaborative journalists and news professionals."

TVNewser reported a couple weeks ago that CNN was close to dropping the AP, but only now is it officially doing so. The network will expand CNN Wires, first announced in late 2008 and an early indicator of a shift away from the AP. Also, CNN is launching CNN Share, Walton wrote, as a way to "aggregate editorial content and facilitate easy distribution and sharing across platforms."

But CNN won't be completely self-sufficient in terms of newsgathering. It's entering into an agreement with Reuters for supplemental breaking news coverage and will also use in-house Spanish-language wire service EFE.

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[CodeToad]

In other words, “We were about to have a massive layoff until someone showed us that canceling our AP contract and keeping people and making them do their own damned jobs was cheaper.”

[Anti-Bubba182]

Will anyone notice?

I doubt very many will.

[martin_fierro]

"the content we offer will be distinctive, compelling and, I am proud to say, our own."

Bon chance, mon petit!

[Texas Fossil]

AP = Always Propaganda

[Recovering_Democrat]

One lameass liberal outlet drops another lameass liberal outlet.

Color me happy.

[bert]

They haven’t paid their dues and got cut off I’ll bet.

A shot off other late payers bow

[SaraJohnson]

AP is not worth it.

Every liberal press organization subscribes to the same propaganda and and repeats it like an echo of disinformation and nonsense.

CNN should create it’s own unique leftist lies.

[MovementConservative]

Hahaha! Screw the AP. As long as they employ Democratic operatives like Jennifer Loven they have no credibility. Wither and die you a-holes. I still pray those lib editors will demand reporters who don’t have Obama bumper stickers on their prius’

[PGalt]

Will anyone notice?

I notice a great thread on Associated Propagandists and Collectivist News Network.

Thanks for starting it, abb!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I get my local and state news from the Tribune-Review (suburban Pittsburgh), which actually used their own reporters rather than DNC talking points.

I get my national and international news from The Wall Street Journal.

Neither paper is perfect, but they at least use their own reporters and make an attempt to be balanced on most things.

I think that using your own reporters is crucial. The news wires homogenize the newspapers which use them; it is no good comparing editorial pages of papers and thinking that a conservative editorial page maps to conservative news. Because conservative news is an oxymoron. The only good news ("Gospel" being Greek for "good news") is almost 2000 years old . . .