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Article: Hidden codes and competitive trickery: in a coffee-table book, Associated Press correspondents and photographers describe what they and their colleagues did to be first with the news.(Breaking News: How The Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else )(Book review)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Harvard University, Nieman Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Breaking News: How The Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else Reporters of The Associated Press, with a foreword by David Halberstam Princeton Architectural Press. 400 Pages. $35.
This coffee-table book, the first by and about The Associated Press as an institution in 66 years, apparently was edited by committee, or perhaps by anonymous editors in turns. Whoever was hands-on responsible, he/she/they faced the problem of pulling together thousands of anecdotes, hundreds of claims of glory, and a few confessions of error. Moreover, much of the material had already been published.
Thus it made little sense to write another history of ...
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