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All: The new Billszone site with the updated software is scheduled to be turned on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The company that built it, Dynascale, estimates a FOUR HOUR shut down, from 8pm Pacific, (5pm Eastern) while they get it up and running. Nobody will be able to post in any forum until they are done. Afterwards, you may need to do a web search for the site, as old links will not work, because the site is getting a new IP address. Please be patient. If there are bugs, we will tackle them one at a time. Remember the goal is to be up and running with no glitches by camp. Doing this now assures us of that, because it gives us all summer to get our ducks in a row. Thank you!
There is work to be done and things to be learned. We are going to try to get the old look back - or something close to it. We also know there are bugs. A thread will be started to report bugs and then we can pass those onto the host.
Thank you for all the patience and support with this - hopefully this will greatly reduce the crashes and other site issues we have had lately.
Please use this thread to report any issues you come across
http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/forum/feedback-forums/billszone-q-a/6521455-upgrade-report-bugs-here
It's a group of news reporters/photographers that go around and report on things. They are then paid dues by smaller newspaper, etc. to let them use their story in their newspaper / magazine / website, etc.
It's a way for small-town newspaper and other media to save money and still have something to print.
I am a journalist major. The AP is usually a group of journalists that are recent college grads. They report on a story and put it on what they call the wire. When a newspaper needs to fill space, they go to the wire and get one of these stories.
I don't think that it is only small town newspapers who use the associated press. If something happens in Butte Montana that is newsworthy, the Buffalo News might want a story, but they're not going to fly a reporter out there to write something first hand. They'll print the AP story. It just makes economic sense. I would wager the NY Times and Washington Post, print AP stories.
I've made up my mind. Don't confuse me with the facts.
I'm the most reasonable poster here. If you don't agree, I'll be forced to have a hissy fit.
Originally posted by TigerJ I don't think that it is only small town newspapers who use the associated press. If something happens in Butte Montana that is newsworthy, the Buffalo News might want a story, but they're not going to fly a reporter out there to write something first hand. They'll print the AP story. It just makes economic sense. I would wager the NY Times and Washington Post, print AP stories.
"kodi dog of the associated press reports tatonka is about to go smoke and then take a duece. he has been quoted as saying, "smoke the smoke to induce the duece""
wonder if can get my dog on the associated press if i sent in his body of work.. which is this post
"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity." ~ Gordie Howe
anyone can submit material to AP. Most of the stories come from regional writers of organizations that subscribe to AP. AP is an information system. A news organization pays them a fee and then they set up a computer and printer that connects to the AP infrastructure and retrieves all the wire information and prints it out. The reporters then grab the wires and write up stories based on the material. The AP material is generally sent out as raw news but sometimes there also are complete articles written that are sent out. If AP buys an article from a writer, they can send it out to the network and the material can be used by anyone on the network. It is also used at television stations and radio stations to support their news activities. A typical activity in an NPR station is to grab the AP wire news, put a spin on it and then hand it off to the DJ to present it on the air.
On matteres that I am knowlegeable of, the AP is the single most useless, uninformed media support group in existence.
If the AP were subjected to the same standards that normal corporate America is, they would get sued every day and be lone gone by now.
Totally useless filler.
Acutally Tatonka I happen to work in the broadcast media and can tell ya it's not cheap. If you have about $13.000 a year to spend you can join. It's used by pretty much every broadcast and print medium in the country. Reuters is one of it's smaller but growing competitors out of Europe.
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14850BillsFan
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(Don't let the b*astards grind you down.)
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