Comments on: Why papers are leaving the Associated Press http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/03/why-papers-are-leaving-the-associated-press/ www.visualeditors.com/apple Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mike Higdon http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/03/why-papers-are-leaving-the-associated-press/comment-page-1/#comment-22845 Mike Higdon Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:58:29 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/?p=7537#comment-22845 As Weird Al Yankovic would say: "stick it in your pointy ears!" What's it tell you when a newspaper even thinks a news service is all wrong. The AP should be running scared and changing. Really, if the AP were smart, they would put their content out a la carte for everyone to buy, not just newspapers. They should create a distribution software that people can buy news from and then they should charge newspapers to put their stuff on it for pay while news orgs slowly lessen the amount of free content on their sites. If they were smart. As Weird Al Yankovic would say: “stick it in your pointy ears!”

What’s it tell you when a newspaper even thinks a news service is all wrong. The AP should be running scared and changing.

Really, if the AP were smart, they would put their content out a la carte for everyone to buy, not just newspapers. They should create a distribution software that people can buy news from and then they should charge newspapers to put their stuff on it for pay while news orgs slowly lessen the amount of free content on their sites.

If they were smart.

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