I think the AP is a not for profit corporation. If so, there may be restrictions on the amount of political campaigning they can do and still hold their tax exempt status. I think we need someone to challenge it on the theory that their special brand of journalism amounts to overt political support of the DNC.
The Fourth Estate protections do not apply to advocacy groups. Just a FREE PRESS. The AP is an advocacy group...
APis a co-op operated by the member news organizations. Each group that takes from the AP store also has to put stories into it. Money changes hands somewhere, but I don’t know the details.
I think the AP is a not for profit corporation. If so, there may be restrictions on the amount of political campaigning they can do and still hold their tax exempt status. I think we need someone to challenge it on the theory that their special brand of journalism amounts to overt political support of the DNC.We need to figure out how to bankrupt the AP. This Leftist propaganda organization must be held accountable for crimes against the People of the United States of America.
I don't think AP is not-for-profit. AP has been sued successfully for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. And that would certainly seem to be an avenue to attack it in the future.AP is a co-op operated by the member news organizations. Each group that takes from the AP store also has to put stories into it. Money changes hands somewhere, but I don’t know the details.The members of the AP are feeling the pinch of the loss of the news monopoly due to the internet, and that is pinching the AP and causing it to have to retrench. The fact that membership in the AP is expensive is part of the bias of journalism which needs to get value for those bucks.
The Fourth Estate protections do not apply to advocacy groups. Just a FREE PRESS. The AP is an advocacy group...There is no such thing as an "Estate" under the Constitution. No titles of nobility are legal here.And that is the point - the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press are rights of the people. The names of the Associated Press, the National Press Club, and probably many other "press" organizations arrogate to themselves privileges which they would deny to the people - such as "Shield laws" and "press privileges" under McCain-Feingold - and those distinctions are artificial and arbitrary. Because even if I don't own a press yet, I still have the same rights that I would have if I hit the lottery and won a newspaper.
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