AMERICAblog: AP is now lecturing you about how the Internet works
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
Does anyone know how to resuscitate freedom of speech??
tbhull
· 1 year ago
This would be more akin to the freedom of the press.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
AP = feeding tube news YouTube and blogs = anyone under forty news sources (and a few of us old farts who gave up on the Fourth Estate after Reagan got elected.)
The AP may as well go away.
dad
· 1 year ago
Can AP still quote from other sources?
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Actually, that's funny. I sure hope AP never quotes anything written on a blog or in a newspaper, or on the air.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
This is the natural consequence of coorporate owned media. The thirst for profit overtakes everything. Words are viewed as property, with law and reason shown the door in short shrift.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
John: i will help support you and Markos as well. The last remaining bastion of free speech is the Internet and ultimately the Blogs. For too many years we have taken free speech for granted and the one good thing Bush has done is remind us that our Freedoms can be withdrawn without a whimper from our elected representatives. We need to begin the fight to restore those rights and remind our politicians that they cannot wipe their ass with the constitution as our President has done for the past 7 years.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
AP is run by an ex Gannett exec [Tom Curley, former editor and pub of USAToday] and Timmah was installed, per Jack Welch's recollection over the weekend, by Michael Gardner, another Gannett stooge. Gannett is to journalism what McDonald's is to organic beef. http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
And all of this was predicted in the late fifties by Marshal McLuen and Vance Packard. No one seemed to feel the need to read their work or listen to them. The print press migrated over to the TV news which then began hiring Barbizon models who had the reading ability of a sixth grader but who looked and sounded pretty and credible. The first REAL progress in news gathering was the advent of the internet. My biggest fear is that Congress and their corporate golfing buddies are going to start controlling the net seriously. Obama is the obvious product of this new forum in the grass roots. This must be scaring the shit outta them.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
my immediate reaction is 'fuck these people'.
my second, thoughtful reaction is 'fuck these people'.
you caint have my freedoms!!
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
It's just a easy for me to "click" a few dollars for Markos' potential lawsuit as it is to "click" a few dollars to Act Blue or Obama. :)
If it's 40 words of an AP article...How many seconds is it showing You-Tube?
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Zero seconds if you try to show something from Comedy Central or CBS on YouTube.
EdSikov
· 1 year ago
Fair use is, in a word, fair. It allows for the free exchange of information and ideas. Nonfiction writing would be virtually impossible without it. I too would support any reasonable effort to counter this type of bullying.
jr
· 1 year ago
the AP fears site traffic like McCain fears crippled spouses
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
STAUS QUO my peeps....must keep the status quo...minimun waage...=6 bux an hr,enuf to give ya a gallon of gas to get to WORK
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
say it again keep the status quo....conserve in CONSERVATISM
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Slogans to live by:
1. The InterNet is dead.
2. Intellectual Property Rights is a Soap Bubble.
3. AP = American Propoganda
PurgedVoter
· 1 year ago
AP has been getting away from source based research and are simply encouraging others to do the same. It is takes a lot of time and research to find sources that fit a world view that tries not to bias itself by viewing the world. The real danger is the corruption of reporters. After all, reporters are employees and should report what they are told to report. Historically after reporters research events, while trying to remain objective, they develop dangerous perceptions. Perceptions that conflict with the need for all wealth to be gathered in the hands of those that have shown the initiative and ability to inherit enormous amounts of money.
Melanie_Denise
· 1 year ago
I vaguely remember AP posting an article comparing Hillary's schedule to Bill and Monica's sexual trysts. Fantastic journalism we have over there.
TheOriginalLiz
· 1 year ago
AP is just pissed that they are no longer considered a credible news source by anyone with 1/2 a brain.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Don't you know the intellectual property rights lawyers love it.
Anyway, as much as possible, go to the source, even if it is a PDF...I mean, why quote news reports that aren't trusted anyway? AP is just part of the MSM and untrustworthy. I mean, isn't that what internet denizens complain about constantly anyway?
Of course, many of us can't even get near a source...but you have to remember, the thing is what it is. Gotta make a judgment in any case.
lutton
· 1 year ago
The blogosphere (left and right) was pretty successful regarding the FEC and political speech online. I suspect we'd be succesful again in this matter.
It's bully tactics--not far removed from the crap the RIAA pulls threatening then suing individuals and then not even seeing the cases out when it looks like the RIAA might suffer a precedent setting loss.
Bloggers need to follow the fair use doctrine and cite (or link to) the source. That's legal and ethical.
caphillprof
· 1 year ago
Someday this intellectual property bubble too will bust.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Don’t see how any news organization can claim privileges without logged records of the community and public services they provide to meet researched community needs through the privileged access that makes up their news product. If AP won't allow "fair use" then I feel events, people, witnesses, organizations or whatever can fairly deny AP access...I'm sure other online news services appreciate the added eyeballs any link from blogs can offer even if the AP doesn't.
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YouTube and blogs = anyone under forty news sources (and a few of us old farts who gave up on the Fourth Estate after Reagan got elected.)
The AP may as well go away.
Gannett is to journalism what McDonald's is to organic beef.
http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/
my second, thoughtful reaction is 'fuck these people'.
you caint have my freedoms!!
:)
http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/usat-ed...
1. The InterNet is dead.
2. Intellectual Property Rights is a Soap Bubble.
3. AP = American Propoganda
Anyway, as much as possible, go to the source, even if it is a PDF...I mean, why quote news reports that aren't trusted anyway? AP is just part of the MSM and untrustworthy. I mean, isn't that what internet denizens complain about constantly anyway?
Of course, many of us can't even get near a source...but you have to remember, the thing is what it is. Gotta make a judgment in any case.
It's bully tactics--not far removed from the crap the RIAA pulls threatening then suing individuals and then not even seeing the cases out when it looks like the RIAA might suffer a precedent setting loss.
Bloggers need to follow the fair use doctrine and cite (or link to) the source. That's legal and ethical.
If AP won't allow "fair use" then I feel events, people, witnesses, organizations or whatever can fairly deny AP access...I'm sure other online news services appreciate the added eyeballs any link from blogs can offer even if the AP doesn't.