Today's idea to learn more about the Associated Press. What do they do? Who are they? How come so much news comes through them? Do we think they are evil or are they good? Is it possible that they are unbiased? Or if that is an impossibility at least without a controlling consciousness with which to direct bias?
Can I send things to the AP that might be picked up other places? How much does that cost? Can our blog go out over the AP? What might that even mean?
I figured I'd write one final sentence that wasn't a question.
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there was a guy in my building who was a reporter for the AP. it sounded like they just had a lot of people on contract all over the place just in case something happened, they'd have someone covering it. and maybe he was supposed to submit stories every some number of days? he doesn't live there anymore, but maybe the trick is to track one of these people down and interrogate them. i'd be surprised if just anyone could submit things, though. the AP has a lot of bureaucracy behind it at least for their photos. syndication is usually something separate.
In 1876, Mark Kellogg, a stringer, is the first AP news correspondent to be killed while reporting the news, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His final dispatch: "I go with (Commander George Armstrong) Custer and will be at the death."
Colonel John Gibbon, whose men arrived at the battle on the second day and also helped bury the dead, said he found Kellogg's body in a ravine where a number of men from died. Kellogg's body was scalped and missing an ear; he was identified by the boots he wore.
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