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Where do you usually get your online news from?

Slugman

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Apr 29, 2004
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Tenchiro said:
The Associated Press & Reuters, it's where every other news source gets their news from.
Correction - That is where every other news source FILTERS their news from...
 

Toshi

butthole powerwashing evangelist
Oct 23, 2001
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Tenchiro said:
The Associated Press & Reuters, it's where every other news source gets their news from.
this is only true for the mainstream us newspapers.
 

jdcamb

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Toshi said:
this is only true for the mainstream us newspapers.
Reuters is a British/Dutch news service and distributes News and Financial services info to the world. As does the US based Associated Press. You can find stories "off the wire" from both services in news outlets around the world. It is the spin that the US Media puts on those stories off the "wire" that generally only happens here and in the UK. Gannett (USA Today) also has a "wire" service too but not many independent papers use it as the same stories also appear in McPaper and they are copyrighted and can't be altered (more folks are employed by Gannett to do that then fact checkers or editors??).....jdcamb
 

Toshi

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jdcamb said:
Reuters is a British/Dutch news service and distributes News and Financial services info to the world. As does the US based Associated Press. You can find stories "off the wire" from both services in news outlets around the world. It is the spin that the US Media puts on those stories off the "wire" that generally only happens here and in the UK. Gannett (USA Today) also has a "wire" service too but not many independent papers use it as the same stories also appear in McPaper and they are copyrighted and can't be altered (more folks are employed by Gannett to do that then fact checkers or editors??).....jdcamb
ok, fine. :D but the bbc does a lot of reporting/writing on its own, it's a juggernaut in its own right.
 

jdcamb

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Toshi said:
ok, fine. :D but the bbc does a lot of reporting/writing on its own, it's a juggernaut in its own right.
BBC rocks :thumb: But they aren't the only game in town in the UK.... The company I work for owns and operates the Tabloid wire over there. Lame.....

BBC America is kind of lame. And suffers from having to tone down it's reports over here to make them palatable for us......jdcamb