When I was a cub reporter at a newspaper 40-odd years ago, my fantasy was to have a wire-service news ticker at home. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The answer was in the day's wire-service reports: The White House wanted Lott out as the Senate's top Republican. ❋ Charlie Reina (2011)
Moreover, wire-service coverage of big-city cultural events was routinely carried by local newspapers throughout the country. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)
A wire-service photographer on the scene captured images of men holding signs — in English — that read "Go out U.S.A." ❋ Nathan Hodge (2010)
So far, these stories are unimpressive — often just a brief compilation of wire-service reporting. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The latest: wire-service stories saying the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, will start selling the iPhone, ... ❋ Unknown (2008)
All those fawning stories, all those bloody headlines, all those wire-service photos of the thick-lipped, jowly, 235-pound Snorky dolled up in outfits that made him look, as a New York reporter once wrote, “like an overstuffed capon”—all of this was very bad for the drys. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)
Other assassination-related items on the auction block include medical instruments used to embalm Oswald; a signed Easter card Oswald sent his brother, Robert, who lives in Wichita Falls, Texas; a part of the limousine seat Kennedy was sitting in when shot; and a wire-service teletype from the day of the killing in Dallas. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A state legislator in Missouri, Claude Boulrice (D-Knob Noster), read a wire-service report in which Shrdlu was mentioned, and rose on the floor of the General Assembly in the State Capitol in Jefferson City to denounce Shrdlu's works as “frivolous, a waste of money, and a corruption of the morals of our young men and women at taxpayer's expense.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
The latest: wire-service stories saying the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, will start selling the iPhone, perhaps before Christmas. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At least link to the original rather than a wire-service copy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The wire-service reporter who receives this confession will later declare that "good reporting and good behavior are mutually exclusive." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Originally a telex machine that ran on a wire-service line, it's been modified to receive stories from 30 RSS feeds and spews out news in a real-time newsfeed that, depending on the setting used, could quickly fill the gallery with paper. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2010)
On second thought, maybe there's one more event worth trying: America's newspaper and wire-service reporters could all leave for a month's vacation at the same time -- kinda like a strike. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even the sources most knowledgeable about an issue, the Chronicle of Higher Education in the case of college and graduate studies, or Education Week with regard to K-12, will often adopt a wire-service mantra without vetting the story. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I actually think that this is part of the secret of our success -- we write headlines like wire-service stringers, headlines that are meant to be easy to grok from a cluster of RSS links, search-results, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The U-T is buying more wire-service reviews, running them various mid-week days, making the word count up to about half, I think, of what the old weekly 4-page tabloid was ....and claiming they still want to keep reviewing alive. ❋ Unknown (2009)
