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March 27, 2005
AP to Provide News and Fox News
According to a Los Angles Times editorial this morning, the Associated Press will begin offering two versions of mayor news stories
one a traditional, straightforward, factual news lead and the other a more evocative, literary version using images, vivid description, quotes and narrative techniques intended to engage busy readers.
I could not find reference to this new "service" on AP's web site.
Perhaps I'm a little behind the news, but I hadn't read this anyplace else. One of the things I liked about AP accounts is that they did not contain much that was "intended to engage busy readers." I hope news sources citing the jazzed up versions will make it clear which version they are using. Better, I hope they don't use them at all. Our major media use a lot of AP material and then jazz it up themselves.
As Mark Twain once said in Europe and Elsewhere,
"If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive."
Posted by Duane Smith at March 27, 2005 8:28 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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