The editing steps I have analysed are only the last in the news flow. Here
inaccurate editing has patterned according to the same factors which bias
news selection. Since these factors have also been shown to affect selection
at the earlier stages of international news flow, it is likely that they influence
how the international news agencies edit their copy. From accounts such as
Rosenblum (1979, p. 113), the scale of rewriting at the agencies' own desks
in New York (AP, UPI), London (Reuters) or Paris (AFP) seems to be
greater than at the later editing stages I have analysed.