CNN Looks To Take On The Associated Press
from the here-comes-competition dept
With the Associated Press bizarrely focusing on competing with its own members, it hasn't been much of a surprise at all that those member newspapers have been leaving in droves. While the AP recently announced that it was going to rethink its strategy, it appears that plenty of other news operations see the AP's self-destructive decisions as an opportunity. We already noted in that earlier story that some newspapers were banding together directly to share content, and now CNN is announcing its own wire service that newspapers can tap into. Clearly, newspapers value being able to get content from other sources (especially for international coverage), and it seems that news operations like CNN see the AP's problems as a big opportunity.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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CNN vs. OBAMA
I find it very hard to get real information from news agencies.
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But I agree they have bitten themselves in the butt! Not a great way to get along with the neighbours, as it were!
As a Cunnuck, I don't really care who gets in! Yes it effects the whole world, most Americans think anyways, I do not go with that idea as we all (countries), make our own mistakes and must live with them! As do you all!
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The age of the INFO BABE
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Completely leftist news?? Yea OK, "real reporters" LOL
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The AP
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It's all bias
No Thanks. I'll look else where for my news.
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AP RIP ASAP
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AP is worthless
I remember when only couple of years ago they ran some junk piece about Dracula in the Medieval Age Transylvania and the author kept talking about Romania in the Medieval Age - which in fact didn't even exist until late 19th century, let alone that Transylvania was part of Kingdom of Hungary/Austro-Hungarian Monarchy until the end of WWI...
As someone with relevant EU roots I was first baffled by such gross errors, unscrupulous rewriting of European history then I noticed it was written by someone from Bukarest, Romania and it became even more ridiculous: it's one thing that apparently Ceausescu's alternative history is still alive but how on Earth did it make to the front pages of AP???
It DID speak volumes about the sheer level of amateurism, the complete lack of the even most basic editorial standards, let alone journalistic integrity and I never visited their site again, always skip every AP link ever since.
If you add it that AP's head honcho was offered a post by McCain you can sum up AP pretty shortly: crooked, clueless, incompetent, amateur, worthless PoC.
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