AP was created by newspapers
Isn’t AP a not for profit? Given their overt editorializing in favor of Obama at this point, perhaps a complaint to the IRS over their 501 status might be in order.
We need a news service that TELLS THE TRUTH to replace AP.
We will probably see the surviving fishwraps drive wooden stakes into the heart of the AP monster on a weekly if not daily basis.
These actions will not be restricted to fishwraps. We will probably see many types of non profits similiar to AP get whacked as our economy goes sideways.
If you have local tourist boards/offices which have become bloated pools of lazy liberals getting a paycheck in your community that have been financed by donations of local businesses watch how the businesses will handled these bloated do nothings. You will see actions ranging locking the doors of the tourist bureaus to evictions of the do nothings by the business community and mass firings.
Editors say using Politico copy with that of traditional news services such as McClatchy-Tribune, Hearst, or The New York Times News Service could fill the AP void.
These alternatives are more subtle and intelligent than AP, which is stuffed full of blatant and obvious liars. But they are still all leftists.
I think that that will continue to be the case as long as our universities and journalism schools and the news media themselves are all stuffed full of brainwashed leftists.
Could someone who understands the news business from the inside analyze this for us?
I’d like to know if this really is the beginning of the end for the monopoly that liberals have had over the media.
I’d like to think that we can get back to reporting that is not so agenda-driven.
They should go out of business. That would be the best thing for America.
Since the Ossociated Press announced its controversial total support for the Obama campaign after Sarah Palin was tapped for the Republican vice-presidential slot in late August, many news consumers have started ignoring and/or deriding their “content”.
The website needs freeper help posting information now!
Do you think???
As in honesty??
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The truth is that these many newspapers would be helped by having a variety of different voices writing their own articles rather than publishing that same old stuff AP boilerplate readers can get from a gazillion of other online and offline sources.
I’d be more inclined to read local research on an issue than I would read the regurgitated spew that is called “news” in this country.
AP’s gotten so bad, papers might as well go with PRNewswire - besides, it’s free. And no less biased than AP...
IT IS CRITICAL that a fair and balanced newswire service arise to compete with the AP.
A professional news service as an alternative to the corrupted A.P. would have the potential to turn around the free-fall in newspaper circulation and revenue.
I don’t understand why they don’t buy story by story from UPI, Reuters, etc.
Alan Mutter has been saying for a long time that the business model for the AP is not workable long term, with AP selling its stories on Yahoo, Google, MyWay and its own website. Why do people need a dead tree paper for news they can get online?