That’s kind of what the AP is for. Similar to Reuters. And there’s another big one that I can’t remember. They’re only supposed to provide the core facts. Journalists are supposed to follow things up. But over time, journalists have started using these services as the whole story. This is how you get roughly the exact same headlines and stories in every paper.
Journalists are given less and less time, too. And investigative journalists’ funding or whole department is cut. Half the shit that ends up on AP are government announcements, treated as neutral lol and journalists run with it as if someone at the AP has discovered something rather than being handed a press release.
It’s a shit show but journalists know how the bills get paid.
That’s kind of what the AP is for. Similar to Reuters. And there’s another big one that I can’t remember. They’re only supposed to provide the core facts. Journalists are supposed to follow things up. But over time, journalists have started using these services as the whole story. This is how you get roughly the exact same headlines and stories in every paper.
Journalists are given less and less time, too. And investigative journalists’ funding or whole department is cut. Half the shit that ends up on AP are government announcements, treated as neutral lol and journalists run with it as if someone at the AP has discovered something rather than being handed a press release.
It’s a shit show but journalists know how the bills get paid.