Another way of looking at it is that video images that provide our understanding of what is going on in the world via TV is really the province of two agencies: the AP and Reuters. Despite the proliferation of cable TV and alternative news sources like Fox, we are all being fed from the same fetid faucet when it comes to TV reports from around the globe.
Read on:
An LGF reader who worked for Associated Press TV News sent me the following article explaining how APTN works, and suggesting a reason why their coverage of the Middle East is so overwhelmingly biased against Israel:
How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
The vast majority of the TV news pictures you see are produced by two TV news companies. Presented here is a case for how a large amount of money has been used to inject a clear bias into the heart of the global TV news gathering system. That this happens is not at question, whether it is by accident or design is harder to tell.
You may not realize it, but if you watch any TV news broadcast on any station anywhere in the world, there is a better than even chance you will view pictures from APTN. BBC, Fox, Sky, CNN and every major broadcaster subscribes to and uses APTN pictures. While the method by which they operate is interesting, it is the extra service this US owned and UK based company offers to Arab states that is really interesting.
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(Charles Johnson of LGF was the one who exposed the photoshopped pictures put out by Reuters and demonstrated that the "memos" shown by Dan Rather were typed on a computer using Microsoft Word, not on a manual typewriter. He was primarily responsible for bringing Rather down.)
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