What I always found interesting is that the AP actually provides other news outlets a "score" on the significance of a new story in their newswire, but because

What I always found interesting is that the AP actually provides other news outlets a "score" on the significance of a new story in their newswire, but because outlets are competing for attention - this score never gets acknowledged and instead, everything is just marked as "breaking news" by the other outlets. If only all outlets adhered to the significance score.