What is "wire service"

Usage examples of "wire service".

The coach that had been booby-trapped was given over mainly to newspapermen, wire service men and cameramen, among them four women, three of indeterminate age, the other young.

So devote wire service people and network people and syndication people to gathering up all the bad news they can possibly dredge and comb and scrape out of a news-tired world and have them spray it back at everybody in constant streams of electrons, and two things happen.

Meanwhile the addled old desert rat was probably preening his tobacco-stained mustache down at Furnace Creek Ranch, posing for the TV and wire service cameras, maybe gabbing over the radio at the Park Ranger's office, enjoying his celebrity status.

The news is up-to-the-minute snippets torn from the wire service printers, hastily rewritten by ju­.

The head of the Fed's public-relations department drafted a statement for the Chairman to read for whatever news cameras would answer the summons, and the statement would go out simultaneously on every wire service.

And on pages 2, 7 and 45, respectively, in the San Diego Union, and pages 4, 50 and 51 in the Los Angeles Times, were the following far less important wire service reports.

Still, none of the wire service stories matched the imagery beamed around the world by the television crews still alive at the scene.