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!
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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!
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.
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NOOOO! If they go out of business, what am I going to use to line the bottom of my birdcage???
See that??? ROTFLMAO!!! Oh, that's rich!
How are they going to stop the independent reporters/bloggers who will step in to fill the gap? Why go with a biased “news product” at all when people on the ground can report globally over the Internet? Most of the “news” you get these days is just filler that’s tossed in while waiting for the next nugget of real news. A pox on them all. The sooner they’re gone, the better!
Network television is what conditioned consumers to free information and the beginning of the print media's decline.
Wow. I'm so impressed. (Not.)
Wallow in it, AP. You've earned it.
so what...they dont want to share the wealth?? Say it aint so!!!
Get off its lawn?
How appropriate to compare anti-gun, anti-property rights, anti-dependent individual, pro-criminal reporters to a gun-wielding retiree defending his property from a gang of thugs.
Jay Rockefeller said two weeks ago the internet is dangerous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY
This is the same day result
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10200710-38.html
and this is the results of Control Committee’s dry run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jTpQSLCq_Q&feature=related
Newspapers are just lobbing in half-assed support. Yes, lobbing.
If we allow this seperation of citizens and state to go on unabated, in a couple of years extemporaneous lobbing won’t even be necessary.
Another opinion.
You neglect to mention the click through and referral revenue you receive.
Go back to real journalism and maybe you can survive. Problem is, your sway is declining and your ego can’t handle it. Do you really think that you can cram your ideology, bent reporting, editorializing in the news reporting, and shilling for the DNC, down our throats and not pay a price for it?
You wanted a new world, you got it. Now let’s see you compete in it.