The last remnants of the Old Republic are being swept away:
The A.P. will change the way it files, edits and distributes stories, opening at least four regional editing hubs as part of a plan it calls AP2.0.
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Kathleen Carroll, The A.P.’s executive editor, said the company’s responsibility was to “preserve our future, so that we can continue to provide news from remote places,†and to “rev up our journalism†to make it compelling to customers.
The idea behind the regional hubs, which mimic an overhaul of The A.P.’s foreign operations earlier in the decade, is to reduce editing gridlock at its major filing desks, including that in New York. The regional hubs will handle coverage in their areas, and the New York desk will focus on “the stories that are the tip top of the day,†Ms. Carroll said.
You may recall that Ms. Carroll is the person who denied that Salam Deher, a/k/a the “Green Helmet” could be staging photo ops at the scene of civilian casualties in Qana, Lebanon — despite video showing it happen. And those revamped foreign operations then produced a fawning, misleading profile of Deher.
As for those regional hubs, it remains to be seen how A.P.2.0 will keep the local systems in line.
“Now feeding you craptastic propaganda at TWICE the speed!”
What can we expect from eternal adolescents who absolutely refuse to recognize the power of human nature, and instead, use their smarmy little hearts to make editorial decisions?
Bullshit. That’s what.
Greed: the new boss, same as the old boss.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, etc, etc.
Consultant: The more you loosen your grip, the more customers will slip from your grasp.
Ms. Carroll: I thought that was “tighten your grip?”
Consultant: That too. Sucks to be you.
So old Katy wants to “rev up” the journalism an make it compelling? How about realizing that an increasing number of us are not compelled to read AP propaganda? Her true goal is to preserve her worthless hide – any journalistic ethics (er, what would pass for ethics, anyway) are dead and buried.
How will they keep them in line? I see the answer in stores all the time. It comes in cans in multiple colors. SILLY STRING. Keeps those stringers stringing everyone along.
Thank You for the Article.