I used to be on air on radio. We were a small station in a small building in the country. Our satellite dishes were nearly the size of the building. When we gave our news segments during our shift we pulled AP and other news outlets' reports from the newsfeed printers. Every station, radio and TV, received the same limited new releases and read the same info on air. It seemed so strange at the time to listen to someone else reading the exact story I'd read verbatim. I was naive at the time. Now I barely know what MSM is saying because I know their spiel.
I used to be on air on radio. We were a small station in a small building in the country. Our satellite dishes were nearly the size of the building. When we gave our news segments during our shift we pulled AP and other news outlets' reports from the newsfeed printers. Every station, radio and TV, received the same limited new releases and read the same info on air. It seemed so strange at the time to listen to someone else reading the exact story I'd read verbatim. I was naive at the time. Now I barely know what MSM is saying because I know their spiel.
When I was in college studying RTV/film we were taught that the AP was like the bible, it doled out the news and everyone else picked it up.