Posted on 09/07/2010 1:08:58 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
I have a couple of AP and UPI history books in my "to read" pile, so I'm not as educated on this as I should be.
The best I can tell of how the 'cooperative' deal between the AP and its subscribers works is that the AP is entitled to all original stuff from the members - news stories, photos, video, etc. Then the AP rearranges the paragraphs in the story, adds/deletes a few prepositions and then turns around and sells it back to the members.
The AP has a few reporters scattered around who do some original reporting sometimes. But the only thing going for them for so many years was their wire network that allowed information distribution among the members. Their own little internet, so to speak.
They're not long for this world.
Good points! Didn’t one of the networks just cut their ties to the AP in the last couple of months, I think it might have been CNN? I’ve always heard the service is rather expensive to subscribe to.
Speaking of the media, did you catch the gag story by Diane Sawyer last night where she was implying the world would be saved if each business hired at least one worker? And how many employees have all these networks canned in the last year?? BwwwwaaaaaHHHH!!
Thanks for the summary.
I haven’t watched ABCNNBCBS phoney news in over a decade.
Dianne has less math capability than most 2nd graders.
Then she forgot to tell about the blood letting in ABC News.
abb, thanks for your reply.
That is how I remember our photographer friend explaining how he, other photographers and writers for AP’s customers got shafted when AP took their product and made it their product.
Diane is a liberal actress pretending to be a news reader.
She does what her masters like George $oreA$$ tell her to do.
One thing the dinosaurs are right about is that “reporting” has to start somewhere. Someone has to get the who, what, when, where, why and how. Someone has to take the pictures and shoot the video.
But I submit you or I or Milhous or just about any FReeper can do that very thing ourselves. We all can write, and we can take pictures and post them. We’ve been doing it for many years now.
That’s why I started my news blog and began covering local government meetings. In all modesty, I put my reportorial skills up against just about anyone in Louisiana.
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