Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website.
You cannot make this stuff up. Forget for a moment that WTNQ is itself an A.P. affiliate and that the A.P. shouldn’t be harassing its own members. Apparently, nobody told the A.P. executive that the august news organization even has a YouTube channel which the A.P. itself controls, and that someone at the A.P. decided that it is probably a good idea to turn on the video embedding function on so that its videos can spread virally across the Web, along with the ads in the videos.
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[TV station employee,] Strovel: And we’re an A.P. affiliate for crying out loud! I stumped him on that one. . . . What is really shocking is that they were shocked that they’ve got a YouTube channel that people are embedding on their Websites. He seemed shocked by that. ‘Oh, I am going to have to look into that” is what he told me.Grantham: What an idiot!
Strovel: I know, I know.
In other, vaguely related newspaper news, it’s Google against the publishing world, according to newspapers, etc. More cluelessness abounds.
These execs are most likely products of the liberal driven public education system. We all know critical thinking is discouraged there. What do you expect?
Whether or not you think it’s a good thing, you can’t argue that newspapers deserve to die based on their own actions.
#2–Asshead==bold claims. How could praying to Jeebesus increase critical thinking skills and to demonstrate your own, what action did the newsprint media do that is causing their downfall?
I wanted to suggest this the other day when I heard it on NPR, but I couldn’t find a tip or suggested story link
http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102851849
We’ve been talking a lot lately about what happens to investigative journalism if the old Newspaper model fails. The story above is good news about what could be.
Just like records didn’t kill sheet music, radio didn’t kill records, and tv didnt kill movies – Someone will fill the niche if its valuable.
Hilarious story Uncle Dave.
The less you know the more you get paid.
I sense that Mr. Toxic is a product of said liberal education, hence the display of a lack of critical thinking. Can *anything* be discussed here without some asshat yelling “It’s the liberals! It’s the liberals!” Criminy. Grow up!
I’m sure Google is just looking out for the consumer’s wishes.
They do the same thing with books. Saying that they won’t run ads on books that the publishers don’t want them too. But they still get more value for their other ads by having a large volume of books to make their site more useful.
Talk about reading between the lines – bobbo, where did you come up with praying to Jeebus as having anything at all to do with my post?
Compare foreign news sources coverage of Obama with the American press coverage and you will have your answer as to why they must die.
It is not so much that the AP are retards.
It is that they are desperately and greedily clinging for dear life and will take down anyone within reach.