As you acknowledged in an earlier post, people use wire services for information they can't get on their own. Look at this Associated Press story on the attacks in Nigeria: USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-11-06/nigeria-violence/51097134/1?csp=34news San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/06/MNV81LRAFQ.DTL The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/world/africa/us-warns-of-attack-by-muslim-sect-in-nigeria.html?ref=world The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/united-nations-condemns-bombings-shootings-by-radical-muslim-sect-in-nigeria-that-killed-69/2011/11/06/gIQATXBmrM_story.html I could go on but I think you get the idea. Is the credibility of any of newspapers impugned because they ran the sane wire copy? Or are they supposed to do some BS rewrite, maybe toss in some facts from prior coverage and call it staff and wire reports? The local TV stations don't have to staff or money to cover the Conan O'Brien stuff themselves. And the goal of a local newscast is to offer a mix of news. So they relied on competently written copy from CBS Newsource in their introduction to what I'm assuming was video of Conan. Big deal. Not every thing you put on the air every night is a Polk award contender. For most of the newscasts this was probably a pate to change the pace from the murders, crashes, protests and other issues that make up the local news. And the fact that they used one phrase from the CBS Newsource copy doesn't mean they didn't tailor other parts of the copy themselves. There's been zero evidence of parroting the copy other than this one phrase.
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > > True - that no doubt is why they think they can get away with it. If all > pretense to being an actual newscast is to be abandoned, then I guess it > doesn't make any difference. But any organization even pretending to be a > credible source of news does not routinely take these kinds of short cuts, > because when they occasionally become known, it undermines them. > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
