{"id":743,"date":"2007-12-12T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2007-12-12T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T08:48:00","slug":"is-quitting-reuters-hurting-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/12\/is-quitting-reuters-hurting-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Is quitting Reuters hurting CNN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">O<\/span>n the one hand, they\u2019re putting money into aggressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/506157-cnn-confirms-abu-dhabi-launch?ln=en\">expansion of the newsgathering base<\/a> (good strategic move), on the other &#8211; people are starting to notice their exposure. Take this from <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.followthemedia.com\/index.php#tickle10\" target=\"_blank\">Follow The Media<\/a>:<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was 1100 CET (0500EST) and having heard on the radio of bombings in Algiers FTM switched on CNN International to see what was going on. But instead of a newscast there was just a minute or so of old headlines, absolutely nothing about Algiers, and then it was onto yet another repeat of the network\u2019s interview with the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Switch to BBC World, and they\u2019re all over Algiers, their strap line is quoting Reuters saying there are large numbers of dead and injured, and they are talking live on-air to someone in Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>Makes one question how there could be so much difference in starting up on the day\u2019s biggest story. Could it be that BBC subscribes to more news agency sources than does CNN? As a viewer it seems we get what the news network pays for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, they\u2019re putting money into aggressive expansion of the newsgathering base (good strategic move), on the other &#8211; people are starting to notice their exposure. Take this from Follow The Media: It was 1100 CET (0500EST) and having heard on the radio of bombings in Algiers FTM switched on CNN International to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39,250],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-cnn","tag-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}