[RatherBiased.com]

AP may finally start going after sites other than FR it looks like.

[relictele]

Google can squash them like a bug by taking them out of their search results.

[Parley Baer]

Hehehehe. I love these liberal cat fights.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Popcorn time!!!!! Catfight!

[Westbrook]

Good.

Let them sink into obscurity as they become ever more irrelevant.

[abb]

A complete waste of time on the part of the Associated Press. They don’t own the news and never did. All they ever had was a near-monopoly on electronic distribution. The internet has supplanted their system.

There’s nothing anyone can do about it.

[unixfox]

AP is just pissed because they, like most of the other MSM news outlets are going bust.

When all they have to do is report the news instead of trying to mold it into their own agendas.

I HOPE THEY ALL GO UNDER!

[La Lydia]

That should be entertaining. The majority of AP content is posted on individual newspaper websites. Does AP propose to forbid that entirely? Individual newspapers own AP. Singleton himself owns the Denver Post, the El Paso Times, and others, which post AP stories all the livelong day. If they are not going to block the newspapers from posting AP stories on the their website, the content falls under the fair use doctrine. I am not sure AP has thought this through.

[Graybeard58]

to the much more refined (and useful) Huffington Post

Gag!

[Star Traveler]

If AP wants to take away any quoting or links to them, all that is going to happen is that no one will go there to read any of their stories... :-)

Then they’ll simply go out of business. It’s a stupid move.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The AP is irrelevant - any news organization can just contract with citizens on the ground reporting live. In fact, this should have been done when the Internet was in its infancy, a newspaper could have competed with USA Today and just offered cash to whoever sends their news or story in.

[DoughtyOne]

My heart is breaking for A.P.

The reason people broke out and started reporting news and talking about it on their own, was because the A.P. betrayed a certain level of trust with the public.

The public expected, no demanded, unbiased truthful complete reporting. A.P. (and plenty of others) refused to provide that product, and thus the explosion of internet sights dedicated to doing their job for them.

Here is the crux of the problem. “AP and its member newspapers and broadcast associate members are the source of most of the news content being created in the world today.” Exactly! They have a lot of power don’t they. And when they abuse that power, it creates a very real danger.

We don’t get the truth concerning our presidential candidates. We don’t get the truth about what their proposals mean to the average citizen. We don’t hear about criminal activity, relations with terrorists, the Soros looming large behind the scenes.

A.P. has nobody to blame but itself for what has taken place. And it’s member newspapers are no better. They are on the brink of insolvency, and they don’t understand why.

Look at who we have for a pres__ent today A.P. Tell us you did your job.

Frankly if A.P. went belly up tomorrow, this would be a better world for it.

Whatever replaced it couldn’t be much worse. Propaganda is propaganda.

Our society is at extreme risk today, because of A.P. and it’s fellow travelers.

[Billthedrill]

I have a simple solution for AP - if you don't want your content shared on the net, don't allow it to be posted on the net. Never used to be, you know. Problem solved.

Oh, well, there is that "bankruptcy" thingy. Maybe AP could push for a government subsidy. But not on the net.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Localized ads are coming back to websites as servers get smarter and harvest information through agreements from ISPs to tell them what general zipcode a DSL or cable or dialup is coming from.

[adorno]

It will become an aggregator of its own content. Specifically, it plans on building search engine-friendly Web pages built around specific topics — say, “Fargo floods” or “Michelle Obama” — composed of links that direct readers to AP stories.

I already built a system that does that but it's not restricted to any single news source or reporter/columnist. Mine is an "aggregator" of news, information, editorials/commentaries, and mine also has the capabilities of aggregating from all sources, including all publishers, independent reporters/columnists, magazines, newspapers, TV and radio, or any other source. My system also directs readers to discussion sites where discussions of any news article or any column is underway.

However, my aggreagator will not use Google. My system, though not a search engine, will compete with Google as a content provider. My system will actually be a competitor to any content provider, including all newspapers, magazines, TV/radio, or anybody/anything. My system could actually bring about the quicker death of the NY Times, the AP or any other new source. However, my system could also bring traffic to any other online news source, whether a publisher or an independent writer/reporter/columnist/content provider.

I've not implemented the system yet because I'm trying to put the finishing touches on the CMS side of my system.

My incentive for developing the system were the biased news sources such as the AP and the NY Times and others. I want them to disappear or start becoming unbiased news sources.

[Beckwith]

I hope they sue me, I can use the publicity.

The Obama File

[Ben Mugged]

Stewart Brand at the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, made the following comment:

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

[Doohickey]

Gosh, who to cheer for? Not enough bad things can happen to Google, but then somebody has to stand up for fair use.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It's for the Independent Press to do the job of the ASSociated Press.

vs.

[Cacique]

btt for comment later