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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Best known US TV news channel gives up best known US news agency

I don't think this is good news. My concern is not so much for CNN's output, but that it will weaken the AP.

The AP has a deserved high reputation for international news coverage. Losing such a major client as CNN might encourage others to drop their AP subscription. It becomes a vicious circle - less funding for the AP means a poorer service, hence other customers may depart...
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  1. Gyppo Byard23 June 2010 at 11:11

    It doesn't mean an end to good news agency material, merely that there will be less reliance on the US. And that can't be a bad thing.

    My favourite news agency is Pakistan's entertainingly useless APP, which once ran the fabulous headline "POLICE THROW ROCKS AT RIOTING LAWYERS". You couldn't make it up; and in fact they hadn't...

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  2. Sauti Ndogo23 June 2010 at 16:45

    Kenya's KNA used to specialise in animal stories (snake in pit latrine, two-headed goat born, etc) and typos.

    My favourite of the latter was: "Police demand brides from motorists".

    Sudan's SUNA always began its transmissions with a seemingly endless stream of SUNA SUNA SUNA SUNA SUNA SUNA SUNA ...

    One day, the operator fed the telex tape (anyone else remember that?) into the machine backwards...

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