Research On The Characteristics Of The AP News

Seventy years following its foundation, the U. S. has firmly established and operated its democracy. The whole nation started to transform to industrial and commercial society from the traditional agricultural one. At the time when the demand of information rapidly increased, the American journalism still stuck in the swamp of political conflict, personal attack and overrunning of freedom. In New York, the biggest cosmopolis, six newspaper units, for the sake of economizing the cost, invested jointly to launch a loose management news agency which was the initial form of the AP. It is this cooperative organization that leads AP to the professional operation from the beginning for the balance among the members thereof.In its report, AP gradually forms the objective principle which is the compromise for its survival and erection of prestige. To guarantee the fulfillment of the principle, AP forms a set of sturdy rule in terms of news report. The political system in which three powers clearly distinguish and effectively constrain one another as well as the strong protection of the First Amendment provide the system guarantee for AP's news report. The unique membership organization form of AP enables report network to extend every place and every field in the world and remarkably ensure freshness of each piece of the news.On the minor level, the professional reporters from AP divide the story into couples of sections to which they give the detailed analyses which include the employment of punctuation, the choice of diction, the arrangement of paragraph and the design of text; on the major level, they give emphases on the interaction and feedback between the news and every sphere the news springs from. Comprehensively balancing the influence from myriad respects, in the news handling, they attempt to maximally diminish the influence and preserve the objectivity of news.In its reports of the exterior, especially the one of oriental nations, AP regretfully violates its objective rules. Their thoughts and evaluations basically remain the states in the cold war period. They show the supremacy of powerful nation in their reports for the lack of deep meditation of eastern countries'history and the objective study of the...