Comments on: AP Cuts Paper Rates, Threatens Websites

By: Liberals Make Great Speedbumps

Liberals Make Great Speedbumps — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:14:53 +0000

“We can no longer stand by and watch others expose our agenda and the propaganda we work hard at, day in and day out to pass off as news, under misguided legal theories, such as the First Amendment” Singleton said…

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:29:55 +0000

Boo frickin’ Hoo.
Maybe you losers can have a drink with the NYT losers and cry on each others shoulders and remember when you all were once “KINGS”.
(a long time ago when ya’ll had credibility and balls)

By: BillK

BillK — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:04:13 +0000

It’s the left that continually cries “fair use” at any allegation of copyright infringement, so it’s time for them to be subject to their own policies.

If they don’t like that, perhaps we can develop a filter to add smilies to all AP posts and it will be court-protected parody.

(Not like AP’s news reports aren’t already parody…)

By: Lisa22

Lisa22 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:23:38 +0000

From what I’ve noticed (I lived in London for several years), the papers do well there because they have more people-focused stories and they do a lot more of investigating and legwork in trying to find good stories. My own paper, the Los Angeles Times, is the laziest paper I have ever seen – plus they focus on the same stories again and again (and again), such as “poor immigrant” stories, biased-against-conservative stories – it just gets old.

By: Odie44

Odie44 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:20:26 +0000

When will these fools learn to recognize trends and run a business properly?

Similiar to the music industry – these morons cannot see that a) the legacy model is broken and b) digital-based information is 10 times more efficient than running a print press and is at their finger tips to control and make profits.

Similiar to the music industry’s self-funded legal arm – RIAA, the AP is trying to set the rules and formulas for “success”, while burying their head in the sand, regardless of the glaring reality.

Here is a perfect example: RIAA were running around suing 78 year old grandma’s for their grandkids “downloading activity”, and claiming they lost, on average “$20 per CD – with an aerage of 12 songs per record”. Yet, they made a deal with Jobs for .99 cent per song distribution and ownership rights. Thats an net $8 difference, of which it doesn’t cost to press a CD. What it did represent, in 5th grade math – was their greed to fudge the original costs for profit – which was the so-called basis for the lawsuits, to desperately retain a broken, greed-filled legacy business model.

Theywonder why it is a failing industry, much like traditional print. And I haven’t even gone into the gross left leaning content, just exposing the operational and legal bull shit from both groups.

I hear the Horse and Buggy lobby is really heating up in DC…

By: proreason

proreason — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:20:26 +0000

They are a non-profit organization, yet they seem to be worried about revenue and costs.

How can that be?

Let’s cipher this.

Profit = Revenue – Costs.

If they aren’t in business to make a profit, then it shouldn’t matter what their Revenue and Costs are. Even if their intent is for Revenue to match costs, then they simply need to adjust costs and prices to keep the equation in balance.

Could it be that, somehow, profit matters to the AP? Perhaps because it matters to the member newspapers that pay for the service?

But then, calling the AP non-profit, would be disingenuous, wouldn’t it? And the AP doesn’t lie, does it? After all, it’s a famous news organization, dedicated to the truth. And in addition, the AP regularly “reports” on the evils of profits made by oil companies, banks, and other immoral for-profit businesses.

Why, it’s almost as if the AP is a two-faced, lying sleezebag organization, dedicated to making profits for their member organizations while claiming to be not-for-profit and holding itself as the moral superior to people and businesses that make profits.

What a puzzler.