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)

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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