AP leader sees Internet as future of news

AP via oregonlive.com ^ | 11/13/2004, 7:21 p.m. PT | ROBERT JABLON

[WOSG]

"In the world of personalized news, "the content comes to you; you don't have to come to the content,"

.... oh, and I thought all it took was surfing to this ...


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/browse

... the future is closer than you think.

[Lijahsbubbe]

— The Internet will change the way news is provided to the world by giving consumers the power to demand and receive any sports score, analysis or breaking story instantly, the head of the world's largest news organization said.

What do they mean by "will"? This is already happening. Anyone can find out any score or story they want right now.

[Earthdweller]

"The bloggers need a baseline of facts and professional analysis on which to base their work," he said. "Imagine Drudge without somebody to link to, or Wonkette without somebody to poke fun at."
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No. We don't need a middle man just send it straight from the AP. Let the alphabet guys go work in the copy room.

[endthematrix]

Trying to sell the Internet to a bunch of stiff executives.

[CBart95]

This is so reminescent of the buggy whip makers predicting their future on the basis of a dead paradigm as the "horseless carridge" tolled thier deathknell.
MSM and thier ilk now flounder in a "going down for the third time" collossal failure of imagination.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Still, Curley predicted current news giants will survive. "The bloggers need a baseline of facts and professional analysis

Well they certainly won't be going to CBS, ABC, NBC etc. for facts.

[endthematrix]

Heck, it will come straight from the investigative journo! He can have his own site and sell the scoop!

[orangelobster]

Did Mr. Curly just wake up after a ten year slumber? He doesn't say anything that is not already true. It's like he just found out about the internet.

[CWOJackson]

"...giving consumers the power to demand and receive..."

The truth?

[quantim]

Someone sent him a memo that us 'rednecks' can actually string a syllable or two together.

[katdawg]

Yeah, no kidding.

[BobS]

This guy just woke up?

[Howlin]

This is a trick/trap.

[hemogoblin]

The AP, for example, is expanding the depth of its reporting by adding headlines, statistics, analysis and related stories that can be accessed online.

Sentences that mean nothing are NOT the future of news, hopefully.

[quantim]

This is a trick/trap.

Rope-a-dope most assuredly. AP behind the eight-ball.

[BobS]

"This is a trick/trap."

No. It's a bunch of BS but the AP stuck a foot in the water and found the water to be quite warm. Which means reporters for AP will need a different job soon.

[CBart95]

My vote goes for this:
"This is a trick/trap."
That is so dang "country" it reeks of cow pie.

[latina4dubya]

future?--it's already here... and has been here for quite some time...

[BobS]

"That is so dang "country" it reeks of cow pie.

What is actually happening is liberals are trying to make contact with us. Aren't they like a bunch of little girls?