On 4/21/07 1:25 AM, "Matthew Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
If a respected source like the AP is reprinted widely, its reliability is likely to be high, since the other people are willing to take the risk of publishing it.
With the Internet offering "free paper," many newspapers and other media outlets essentially republish on their Web sites everything that comes off the AP wire. It's not possible to claim any significance to an AP wire story being posted on the Web sites of, say, 50 different papers. It's just an AP wire story that's everywhere. That doesn't mean all 50 different papers deemed it "newsworthy," it just means it got flashed on the wire.
-Travis Mason-Bushman