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How do news networks get their news information?

  • I know that local news stations probably use a police scanner, when news of a police/fire/emergency type of matter comes up. How about other news? How about the funny news out there, or the peculiar news? Do some news networks copy the news from other networks, who break the story first? Like I saw on ABC News a few weeks ago the story of the girl in Florida who kept hiccuping over and over. Now, ABC News just released a story of another girl who can't stop sneezing. Well, today, a local CBS affiliate talked about both the girl who was constantly hiccuping, and the girl who was constantly sneezing. Could the internet be the source of such off-the-wall news, and the news networks, whether local or international, get the news from there? Is it safe to assume that the big three (NBC, ABC, CBS) all show pretty much the same news, alongside FOX and CNN?

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    If you watch MSNBC in the mornings during the IMUS program from 5:30-9 est m-f, you will see many times when the camera pans around literally tons of people on computers, phones, and the control center. The are working constantly to try to find breaking news. The Internet has been a great source, especially for the show mentioned above. Police,fire, ems is another great way. Many times when you are watching MSNBC, you will also see a breaking news flash from a local affiliate. They will go to a major fire, Amber Alert, police chase view from the chopper...etc. Most mother stations like MSNBC, FOX, CNN have NBC, ABC,CBS etc affiliates monitoring and reporting to a mother station... Hope this sheds some light.. Ohhh don't forget the Associated Press wire either known as the AP... :)

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they use police and paparatzi

muaythaigreat

They read the new urk times and washington post. they tell them what to think.

timo_10

From what I understand, a local newspaper in the US can pick up a weird story (from anywhere, I suppose), and gets submitted to their news wire service, such as Associated Press, or a reporter empolyed by the news wire finds out and reports on it. AP is a co-operative owned by newspapers, meaning papers have to contribute to get the rights to run other AP stories. From there, other papers and broadcasters around the world pick up on it, as they subscribe to AP's service. I would think running juicy stories on the wire is a good way to get favor from counterparts in the media.

Scott F

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