Washington Post ombud Patrick Pexton defends the AP:
“…with The Post continuing to downsize, you’ll be seeing more stories and photos from the wire services, especially from AP, which is The Post’s biggest wire partner, in addition to Bloomberg, Reuters and others.
But it would be wrong for readers to dismiss wire stories, photos, videos and graphics as of lesser quality than what The Post’s journalists produce. Many Post staffers worked at AP before coming here, and the AP bureau in Washington has Post veterans working in it today.”
More weekend quotables:
- Digital First CEO John Paton delivered a widely-circulated speech to the Canadian Journalism Foundation on “Old Dogs New Tricks and Crappy Newspaper Executives.”
- CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis responds to Paton’s speech and to the Chicago News Cooperative’s imminent demise, concluding, “…it’s not just not-for-profit thinking that’s dangerous to journalism. It’s the unprofitable thinking of for-profit news companies.”
- “Like a lot of journalists, I’ve covered stories from parts of the world that are considered very, very dangerous yet the only time I have ever genuinely been in fear for my family is after covering the illegal behavior of suburban, mostly white teenagers,” WUSA’s Andrea McCarren told Howard Kurtz on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” during a discussion about her reporting on underage drinking in DC.
- Lara Logan recounts her husband’s feelings when she was detained in Egypt: “I had no idea if my wife was coming home.”
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