IP: More on AP not wanting one sentence quoted from articles

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:58:47 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
> Subject: Re: IP: More on AP not wanting one sentence quoted from articles
>
> > I think this has gone just too far, much too far. AP has stepped into bad 
> > country I agree "A campaign to humiliate AP is the best tactic." to stop 
> > this abuse. djf
>
> In a nation with a psychotic preoccupation with ownership of EVERYthing -- 
> including every idea -- it's not going too far at all. Just business as 
> usual -- emphasis on Business [haloed be Thy name]. (I keep waiting for 
> Dubya to quote one of his Republican predecessors and say [admit!] that, 
> in his view too, "The business of America is [only] BUSINESS" where 
> citizens exist only to serve it as  producers and consumers for the New 
> Barons.)
>
> However, what possible impact would a "campaign to humiliate AP" 
> have?  After all (last time I checked * ), the Associated Press is a 
> NONprofit association owned/controlled/operated by its members -- which 
> are ONLY the newspapers, radio, television stations and other members of 
> the politically-untouchable media-conglomerate cartel ... who are among 
> the most ardent advocates of ownership of every word.
>
> How would we "humiliate" the AP?  By criticizing it for doing EXACTLY what 
> its media-cartel owners -- and ONLY "customers" -- WANT (total content 
> ownership)?
>
> The AP is just the messenger.  It's owner/operators -- the print and 
> broadcast media cartel -- SHOULD be the target for any "humiliation" effort.
>
> --jim
> Jim Warren; jwarren () well com, technology & public policy columnist & advocate



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