On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I did not click on each of the links above, but I am going to go out on a limb and assume that each of the recognized newspapers listed here clearly indicate that the story comes from AP. That is what credible news organizations do. That is what the local newscasts did not do. I am not criticizing them for putting on a puff entertainment piece, as you note, newscasts and papers legitimately have those. I criticize them for not being transparent with their viewers, and sacrificing their credibility. -- 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
