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A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos
Techcrunch ^ | by Erick Schonfeld on April 8, 2009

Posted on 04/09/2009 5:00:19 PM PDT by Perdogg

Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter warning from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website. See update below.

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1 posted on 04/09/2009 5:00:19 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

We don’t trust elitist media because
they don’t know how to “RESEARCH”!!!


2 posted on 04/09/2009 5:10:07 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Perdogg

You can’t make this stuff up!


3 posted on 04/09/2009 5:11:56 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Perdogg

Pissing off your customers is never a sound business strategy.


4 posted on 04/09/2009 5:18:46 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Pissing off your customers is never a sound business strategy.

Almost as bad as pissing off your suppliers!

5 posted on 04/09/2009 5:21:32 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Perdogg

greedy journalists.


6 posted on 04/09/2009 5:23:09 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

They’re not “journalists”. They’re propagandists for the left. This is just karma for helping Kenya Donkey on his election.


7 posted on 04/09/2009 5:27:21 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Perdogg

The comments at TechCrunch are hilarious!


8 posted on 04/09/2009 5:44:38 PM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: Perdogg

AP is in such bad shape they’re jumping at shadows.


9 posted on 04/09/2009 5:49:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If Liberals would pay their taxes, there would be no deficit..)
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