There was a time when AP was the gold standard in reportage.
There was a time when there was competition among multiple news services. Now there’s mostly AP. We don’t really have multiple papers — we have multiple papers who copy/paste stories from AP.
“There was a time when AP was the gold standard in reportage.”
No one is asking you to pass out the medals, comrade.
The Ministry of Truth likes the AP, so golden it is!