services.Now. only the richest papers can afford the luxury of maintaining their own Washington staff. There are some 1700 dailies in the land, and the overwhelming majority necessarily depend on the AP and UP for their national news stories. And the average American accepts the versions as bona fide, even when they are slanted. If you never hear the other side, you don't know it exists.In much the same fashion, it is the Washington reports of the Big Three of TV that cover the country Even those stations that cover their local news ably must rely on ABC, CBS, and NBC for reports from the capital And, accurate or not, they are accepted as true by the viewers.Thus when Tom Brokaw, covering the Nixon campaign inailInWpimeracrefeatw;TtredilaWCisi:e%arrcvchiar“lt;HENRY J. TAYLOR