Has anyboby ever studied how the national media gets 'news'

Is anybody in a position to tell us how the national newspapers get 'news' Does the White House propaganda office send their order/briefing to the WashPost, NY, AP, Reuters etc. every day? How? Fax? Email? Phone call? It would seem that all news channels, newspapers etc get the exact same stuff. (Let's all run the Runaway bride story or the lacrosse team rape or '#2 Al Queada leader is dead' story).

It would be interesting to spend a day at a national newspaper office and follow this? Any journalist here who can say?

Political organizations routinely send what is known as "press releases" to media organizations putting out "talking points" intended as propaganda, coordinated with talking points sent to their own operatives to speak about these points and to stay consistently on message. Clinton's people did this too. The art has suffered since the end of the Clinton presidency. (No clearly defined leader)

But that's for political stories. There's nothing of the sort from the White House about bride stories or anything like that... that's the media responding to what it thinks the public wants to see that will bring in ratings... combined with the tilt of the ownership.

be amazed how close you are to the truth.

In NYC, where my experience was working at a certain paper on W 43rd street... yes, there are lots of meetings with people clutching press releases, clippings from other media, watching tv and even spies at other papers to report on what the front pages were going to be.

it is called "pack journalism" and it is worse today than when I worked there 20 years ago or so.