I pulled this statement verbatim from a lefty website.
I love to play their stupidity against them
Posted on 04/07/2009 9:57:16 PM PDT by Islander7
US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.
The enemy? Websites that use their stories without paying for them.
"We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more," said the chairman of the Associated Press, a cooperative of over 1,400 US newspapers, borrowing a line from the anchorman character in the 1976 movie "Network."
"We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," Dean Singleton said at a meeting this week of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) in San Diego, California.
Singleton's battle cry came just a few days after News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch launched a broadside against Internet giant Google, whose Google News website is one of the most popular news aggregators on the Internet.
"Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked Murdoch, the owner of newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States, where his holdings include The Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
"Thanks, but no thanks," the News Corp. chairman said.
Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, used even harsher language than his boss in describing the situation.
"There is no doubt that certain websites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet," Thomson said in an interview with the newspaper The Australian.
"It's certainly true that readers have been socialized -- wrongly I believe -- that much content should be free," he said. "And there is no doubt that's in the interest of aggregators like Google who have profited from that mistaken perception."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A Google lawyer, Alexander Macgillivray, on Tuesday defended the practice of linking to newspaper articles from Google News, saying it was driving traffic to newspaper websites and providing them with advertising revenue.
Well I’m sure it’s not the newspapers CONTENT that is holding them back...
It seems that this is the particular hill that the AP has chosen to die upon. Farewell, old standby, you had a good run.
SOCIALIST MORONS.
Go away.
You chased your customers away with your bias.
Not you the poster, “you” the socialists who ran the once-proud profession of American journalism into a muddled fiasco of constantly dishonest, blatantly partisan bullcr*p.
Bye.
They’ll have as much success as King Canute when he ordered to sea to roll back.
I can't imagine that anyone would want to steal the AP's leftwing propaganda.
I read Fox News on the 'net, and the thing I dislike the most is that they run AP stories without bothering to correct the (misleading) headlines and factual errors.
Perhaps their contract prohibits Fox from "fixing" the AP's errors.
Wow. When the concept of freebies and entitlement comes to bite liberals in their rear ends, suddenly it's not so fun any more.
How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,
Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
________________________________________
We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!
The WSJ cirulation is increasing.
‘We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more,’ said the chairman of the Associated Press -—
LOL
In bitching about people taking THEIR material, AP can not even come up with an ORIGINAL line?
No decent reporter would trust anything from them or the news services they use..
"Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked Murdoch, the owner of newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States, where his holdings include The Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
If you're going to lie to me, at least do it in a way that is harder to check. All you have to do is go to http://news.google.com and look at what Google has. They have lists of articles with about three lines each and a link back to the original source.
The biggest threat Google provides to the newspapers is by positioning one against another to get the readers to click their links rather than the "old days" of having a subscription to your local newspaper and maybe a national one like the WSJ.
Google could do two things to fight Murdoch's whining. First, they could blacklist newspapers. What happens to the East Poduck News Reader (or even the New York Times) when Google decides not to include them in their search results. Second, Google could form its own news aggregator and distributor in direct competition to AP.
What would have been really fun is if we could repost the original AP article in its entirety here on FR and all of us had a good laugh over it. Too bad we can’t.
Of course not. Nor their assorted — and somehow oddly uniform — editorial views.
Maybe they have more “reporters” and fewer “journalists?”
I pulled this statement verbatim from a lefty website.
I love to play their stupidity against them
So now go build a better mouse trap.
Socialism is a mental disease, you have to use words of one syllable or less when giving directions to them.
As it should. The best writers in the country and the only 'paper' I read.
(( ping ))
NOOOO! If they go out of business, what am I going to use to line the bottom of my birdcage???
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