Talk:Agence France-Presse

bureaux or bureaus?

Is the word bureaux (for offices – in this particular case local offices of news agencies) equally well understood as bureaus by most English-speaking readers? (plural forms of bureau)

Which spelling is most used by the news agencies, and when referring to them?

(Because both searching for bureaux and for bureaus give hits for bureau on Google, I use -bureau to filter out bureau in the following test searches:)

Googling:
"news agency" AP OR Reuters OR AFP -bureau bureaux gives about 14,300 English pages
"news agency" AP OR Reuters OR AFP -bureau bureaus about 15,000 English pages

"Associated Press" OR Reuters OR "Agence France-Presse" -bureau bureaux about 47,500 English pages
"Associated Press" OR Reuters OR "Agence France-Presse" -bureau bureaus about 185,000 English pages
Bureaus wins. (Only a small number of the search hits are for bureaus other than those of the news agencies.)

What do the news agencies use themselves?
site:ap.org OR site:reuters.com OR site:afp.com -bureau bureaux 742 English pages
site:ap.org OR site:reuters.com OR site:afp.com -bureau bureaus 230 English pages
Bureaux wins this one, thanks to Reuters.com, while both AP.org and AFP.com mostly use bureaus.

AFP uses:
site:afp.com -bureau bureaux 2 pages, one of which is in French
site:afp.com -bureau bureaus 8 English pages
--83.253.36.136 21:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hmmm…

I added a reference section and tag to the article, but for some reason, it's not showing up -- nor is the "external link" section. Can anyone fix it? --Micahbrwn 14:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposal to remove Micahbrwn external link

"Article (on PowerLine blog) about AFP coverage of the Middle East" is interesting case about how media and informations are collected and consumed. However I don't understand why this article is cited in that page. This taint AFP as taking a position on the palestinian conflict althought that fact is not proved by one (or many) isolated cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.120.193.113 (talk) 01:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Relation with google

What is the relation of AFP and google? Why does google host AFP news articles? I think this deserves an explaination in the article. What do you think? --Click me! write to me 02:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Could it be that both Google and Yahoo have cost effective subscriptions to AFP news? Does this rate an investigation?--TGC55 (talk) 17:53, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Arab journalists

Since the AFP is known to employ a large number of Arab journalists, there ought to be discussion somewhere on alleged anti-Israeli, anti-West and anti-American bias commonly expressed in the agency's newspaper articles. There is an interesting web-source here that talks of sublime proportions in anti-Israel bias. [1] [2] ADM (talk) 13:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation?

How do you pronounce “Agence France-Presse”? I was sort of hoping to find out, here. I’m afraid I’m going to look silly in front of smart people by saying it wrong. 76.115.22.34 (talk) 16:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)