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wire copy
noun
News item published by a wire service
Exact(34)
Presumably the Ahram story was based on wire copy.
Editors fill holes on print pages by rewriting wire copy.
In effect, it is now saying it does not have confidence in the wire copy.
When one subject died unexpectedly, we were forced to use wire copy on a Saturday night.
You have to call Washington!," and handed him some wire copy.
News sites are looking beyond the limited appeal of headlines and wire copy.
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By comparison, save for Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid, the C.B.S. writing has often been unbelievably banal and as perfunetory and dull as the wire service copy sent to radio stations.
One work has bits of barbed wire, a copy of the Government book categorizing the various races, snapshots of a racist attack that, according to official documents, never took place and a police officer's ammunition belt.
Fill a skimpy tabloid with rewritten wire service copy, hire minimum-wage newsboys to stand at subway stations before the workday begins and hand it out gratis.
Wire chandeliers, copied from an 18th-century Italian design, are bound in sackcloth.
And yet in a growing number of cities and regions newspaper owners have abused their franchise, slashing staff, cutting the "news hole," dropping aggressive reporting, and leaving little behind but wire-service copy, sports, and soft local stories designed to make readers feel all warm and fuzzy and inclined to place a classified ad.
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