That’s how I read it, too.
Don’t back off, Jim. There are alternate sources. You were doing AP a favor with your links to their stories. They’re just too dumb to recognize it.
As the dinosaur media dies, they should accept all the little favors they can get.
My guess is that freeperdom is such an extensive network that there are a million ways to bypass the AP.
Just last week Free Republic scooped the entire media establishment in the US when americanintokyo posted a thread about a Japanese earthquake virtually in the middle of that earthquake.
Free Republic, did the same for me during the subway bombings in England. My son was there and should have been on the train that was bombed, but he over slept. I called him and caught him just leaving the station because they shut down the subway. I was able to tell him what happened and to go back to his apartment. No one in London knew, yet, and it wasn't on the news here,yet, either. I think it was Mad Ivan that broke the story.