Originally Posted by
FlyingUnderTheRadar
Worked for me - even had a nice reply. Which is much better than AP reporter I talked with last month regarding a airline story. The first time I had a gripe, the follow up story two days latter was great. I called again to say I appreciated their efforts - she did not say thanks, just "I have a deadline" and hung up!!
FUTR, one of the things about wire services such as the AP is, as they say, "a deadline every minute". If the reporter in question was crashing on a story that had go out ASAP, there really wouldn't be time to talk. Should she have said "thanks" -- yes, but I'd cut any reporter saying they're on deadline some slack because their mental focus is on their story, not on being polite.