
In this time of increasing global conflict and economic strife, the Associated Press—the wire service that populates most of your finer papers' "News In Brief" sections—has decided to bolster its coverage in the one area that needs to be explained to people most: Entertainment news that is "not about gossip, unnamed sources and innuendo or about 'peephole' journalism with AP photographers becoming paparazzi." A total of 21 reporters will be hired in New York, London, and Los Angeles, and some of those writers will be tasked with writing about music, since some study somewhere is showing that there are people out there who actually want to read about it. No, really!
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