The proximity of kisha club members to the people they cover creates chummy relationships that make it hard for reporters to write critical stories, says Akira Uozumi, a freelance reporter who worked for 20 years at Kyodo News, a wire service and kisha-club regular.

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He started a newspaper wire service, the Capitol News Bureau, distributing stories to eighty papers.

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In many Asian countries, for instance, incoming wire-service reports are directed through the national news agency.

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The reality is that neither the reporter nor the wire service are guilty of anything but reporting the news.

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When I saw a wire service photo several hours later of Time's cover, a standard news shot of Diana, I knew our issue would crush theirs on the newsstand.

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