Forbes:
The AP and Google have been debating content and compensation issues for months. In an interview with Forbes on Wednesday, [Associated Press Chief Executive Tom] Curley warned that if Google doesn't strike the right deal with the AP soon, "They will not get our copy going forward."
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What AP adds the the newsgathering isn't wanted. The copy it passes through can be gotten directly via the internet these days. The copy written for AP only is atrocious.
AP is a middle-man.
Bill Gates once reminded us that, in this age of technology, if middle men fail to add value, they will fail altogether.
One idea for a new media model is to go straight to the source - a pool of journalists and photographers - instead of going to a media co-operative that hires the journalists and photographers, thereby leaving the likes of Curley out altogether.
Our media empires will inevitably be cut down to size. We no longer need so many outlets. Each network, cable outlet and news internet site carries exactly the same news -- gathered from the likes of AP -- that's redundant. One or two outlets will survive, and only the best journalists and photographers will stay the course.
A media shakeout is long overdue. We've been reading and watching crap for far too long.
I agree with you, NevaforLeadership, but your comment leaves me hungry for more. The time to nurture an idea is at its birth and the more immediate time spent feeding it promises a greater chance of survival. I like Arianna's linkage scenario and feel like she's on the right track but would welcome more information.
Screw AP. Reuters is much better at covering world events without extraneous "opinion," and we should all boycott AP news and ANYONE towing the Murdoch line. He's got Fox news and the NYT, etc., now he's going to control the Internet? Not on our watch.
I notice on my mail website, any story with a video is either an AP story or Fox news. AP is thick with Murdoch. Boycott AP.
Right on...who needs a "Fox Wire Service", unfair and unbalanced. boycott AP now.
I wonder if he will take all of his beta-max tapes too.
Better learn to play well with the new technologies, otherwise you'll be just another footnote. The times, they are a changing....
Curley's back. Shooting himself in the foot again.
Just a matter of time before he does himself in completely.
Yet another big business buffoon, who doesn't grasp the impact of technology. They will lose readers, of course, if Google can't send them to the AP stories.
Gore Vidal once said that if the American people ever grasped how utterly stupid the people in control actually are, they'd fall off their chairs.
"stupid the people in control actually are"...I completely concur. I am a literal "fly on the wall" for a company that deals with the CEO and other corporate officers on a daily basis. The line of who could do their job is so thin it's laughable.
We once had a anonymous survey on critiques and ides for the company...3 of my ideas were implemented. Right down to changing the corporate font to a font I have been using for years. Coincidence? I don't think so. In a company of about 4000 people I am like 3999. People would be surprised what type of talent is right next to them and they don't have a clue.
At the end of the day there are very few "successful" people in positions of power. It's about whom you were born into, networking and status. I don't want to hear about how great someone is that were born into privilege and were given the opportunity to pursue said "greatness" without the burden of responsibilities. Such as food, shelter and family. To me TRUE success stories are the ones that come from absolutely NOTHING to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey.
You're making an important point -- the American meritocracy has been severely undermined. Back in the late Jurassic, I went to a state university for $214 a term in tuition, got and repaid a student loan.
Today, I wouldn't be able to afford a college education. A severe handicap in the "information age."
We're creating a two-tier society, complete with inherited roles. Down that road is instability and revolt. Capitalism needs to be saved from its reckless practitioners.
Today's Americans are not going to accept the blame as the people in the Great Depression did. The Americans have, by some stats, some 400 million guns. The powers-that-be should think on that.
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