[Rick Lee]

Most national or world news you see on local news comes from AP pool reporters. Only the AP and major 24 hr. networks have the resources to have people on the ground everywhere in the world at the same time. News outlets pay a fee to the AP based on the size of their circulation or audience and in return they get access to the AP wire feed and can also reproduce stories done by their pool reporters. If you see a world news story in your local newspaper, look closely and you'll probably see some attribution the AP. When they get really lazy, they just reprint verbatim whatever came across the wires.