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Article: Unaccountably Biased
- Article from:
- The American Spectator
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is not only the world's biggest wire service but one of the great institutions of American journalism. It was the brainchild of Moses Yale Beach, the second publisher of the New York Sun, as a January 2006 AP report describes:
In May 1846, Beach offered to share news from the U.S. war with Mexico with rival newspapers. The resulting agreement formed the basis for cooperative news gathering by telegraph just as Samuel F. B. Morse's revolutionary invention began a swift expansion throughout the country, linking New York to points north, west, and south.
Those agreements evolved into the AP that today has 4,000 employees and delivers news around the clock to more than 130 ...