[lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 31 12:45:36 PST 2006


On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> Do not they all rely on wire services, like Reuters or AFP? If the
> Reuters service is available on Yahoo for free, that would cut out
> other
> intermediaries (like NYT) out of the loop without reducing the
> availability
> of information.

The wire services are good, but they tend to be more functional - X said Y at a press conference. They don't do as much poking around. A lot of wire stories simply rewrite stories broken by newspapers.



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