Steve Boriss writes:
45To: conservatism_IS_compassionAllow me to share Boriss' succinct history of the AP:Almost from the very beginning, the Associated Press (AP) has been a greedy deal among newspapers at the expense of their readers. It started innocently enough as a group of New York newspapers pooling their resources to get news from Europe faster. But soon, it degenerated into an anti-competitive scheme resembling a cartel, with AP member newspapers at times banding together to snuff-out would be competitors by denying them membership. Worse still, it created an unhealthy culture in which newspapers viewed themselves as collaborators, not competitors. Its not a daily miracle that virtually every mainstream outlet covers essentially the same news items its an AP-created culture in which papers refuse to compete for readers by offering different stories.
45 posted on 05/02/2008 6:52:27 PM PDT by Milhous (Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies)
46The New York Times and the Washington Post took de facto collaboration one step further.As part of a secret arrangement formed more than 10 years ago, the Post and Times send each other copies of their next day's front pages every night. The formal sharing began as a courtesy between Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and former Times Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld in the early 1990s and has continued ever since.
(Thought that might interest you, Larry).The vision presented here is quite different from much of the current thinking. Its foundation is research and analysis I conduct for the class The Future of News that I teach at Washington University in St. Louis.
Very good. Thanks.
LS