One of today's headline stories is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's upcoming visit to the EU.
Let's look at some of the Headlines from various sources as well as the first few sentences.
Rice Chides Europeans on Detention Center Complaints
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chastised Europe leaders today, saying that before they complain about secret jails for terror suspects in European nations, they should realize that interrogations of these suspects have produced information that helped "save European lives."
Rice Defends Rendition, Reiterates Anti-Torture Policy
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this morning responded to growing concerns in Europe over reports of CIA prisons in Eastern Europe and the use of European airports to transport terror suspects, arguing that U.S. intelligence operations have "fully respected the sovereignty" of countries cooperating with the United States and conform with international law.
Rice defends US terror policies
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has denied that the US uses CIA flights to transport terror suspects to other countries for torture.
Rice: War on Terror Has Saved European Lives
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned the tables on European critics of tough U.S. tactics in the war on terror Monday, maintaining that intelligence gathered by the CIA has saved European as well as American lives.
Rice defends terror policy before trip to Europe
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned the tables on European critics of tough U.S. tactics in the war on terror Monday, maintaining that intelligence gathered by the CIA has saved European lives.
Rice defends U.S. terrorism policy amid reports of secret CIA prisons
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned the tables on European critics of tough U.S. tactics in the war on terror Monday, maintaining that intelligence gathered by the CIA has saved European lives.
Then we have the two pictures chosen (Fox chose to use a stock photo of a smiling Condi instead of one of the AP photos)
One Condi
Another slightly less happy looking Condi
What does this demonstrate? Beyond the fact that we already know Condi is not exactly the most photogenic person. If you notice Fox, CNN and MSNBC all use the stock AP story with not much change. The Washington Post uses it's own press staff for the article so does the New York Times, though the Times article is similar to the AP release. The BBC appears to base it's story on one of it's Washington based staffers as well.
Fox, CNN and MSNBC do this often, something to remember the next time you are looking for variety in sources to confirm or learn more about a news story.
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7 comments:
No surprise here.
Looks like lazy journalism is what passes for work these days.
It's really a pity that this is condoned by the reporter's bosses.
Also makes me question whether or not there is any original thought within the reporting ranks.
Not at the big three of Fox, CNN and MSNBC on most stories. Which is ironic to me since those are the ones people discuss most often as far as "bias" one way or the other. However when you look at the majority of their articles? Almost all are AP stories.
I did the same thing with the Saddam headline earlier this morning. Almost the exact same results.
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can't vouch for fox et al, but i can tell you that cnn has a small staff for handling these things .. correspondents rarely write them themselves (and i doubt they do at any of the networks ... there are folks who take what they write and compile it).
this morning, for example, saddam is the top story ... a small staff is going to focus on that ..... cnn, for example, is not using any AP (although I notice they also haven't updated in almost two hours).
the other thing that cnn does is give its internal wires staff the opportunity to post headlines and a coupla grafs .... monday's are here:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/05/monday/index.html where a cnn datelined story on rice has an awfully long hedline that says "Rice says U.S. has captured and held terrorists through 'renditions,' says European countries have cooperated, denies torture"
Thanks newswriter, I know it's impossible for each media source major or not to have enough staff to cover each story. I've always found it interesting that the AP stories are the ones most often used yet people don't seem to realize that what they are reading on Fox is the many times the same as what is going to be on CNN or some of the local papers as an example. The only difference is typically the headline and perhaps the first paragraph might be changed but the bulk of the article is AP work. What's particularly irritating is when they take an AP article, put their name on it yet make very few changes. That happens locally often.
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the reverse is also true ... the AP takes local stories and puts their name on 'em. technically, the locals etc aren't allowed to reprint an AP story without a copyright line, and they'll come after you if they find out you've been doing that. making minor changes to it doesn't count either. heck, they'll come getcha if you take one quote out of the AP article and put it in your own without attribution.
but the AP has hundreds of staff around the world, and hundreds of stringers, plus all its member papers etc. fact is, the AP is often able to get a story the rest of the media just can't get either because they're not there or they don't have the staff (sometimes one and the same thing). the 24-hour news channels have smaller resources, period, but they're all members of the AP, so they're able to use those stories.
used to be, the average news consumer actually understood that ... or at least more than do now. that was the day ...
I wasn't aware about the AP rules, thanks. It makes me wonder about my local paper at times even more. I understand AP is most often going to be the only source especially for some stories. I just find it ironic when the arguments start about bias that most of the stories come from the same source. Granted the larger media sources also cover stories on their own.
Using the photos as an example, there's been alot of talk about making Condi look "mean" on purpose yet the photos from the actual event are not from the media source. Unless they decide as Fox did to use another stock photo? It would seem it depends on what photos the AP photographer can get versus which one they decide to use. So it might not be the claim made that it's a purposeful attempt to make her look bad, just she doesn't photograph well. (Heck I don't photograph well so I'm glad I'm not a celebrity. I'd be looking at these sources and saying OMG did they HAVE to use that photo!)
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