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CNN's New Wire Will Shake Up the Newspaper Business

I'm a little late on this but it’s fascinating to me that CNN doesn’t want to pay for outside news sources (i.e. their cancellation of AP & Reuters) but expects others to pay them for their news sources (CNN Newsource).

Case in point, the unfair practice at CNN of having their hundreds of Newsource affiliates pay top dollar to get access to CNN footage while CNN uses the reciprocal affiliate footage to program upwards of 50% of their on-air video and online content. They get it coming and going. How is it that the affiliates have not figured this out yet. If the affiliates were to band together and demand a fair reciprocal sharing pool, CNN would have no choice but to bend. Because there's no way their investing 10s of millions of dollars in getting this video footage themselves. Nothing drove me crazier as a local news person to know that WE had to PAY for the privilege of putting our content into a pool that CNN “organized” and benefited greatly from — both from a content source and a mid-8-figure revenue source for CNN Newsource.