Shocker: Tribune Co. Gives Notice To Drop AP

E&P. ^ | October 16, 2008 | Joe Strupp

[NordP]

AP...

I'm Melting...Oh...What a World!...."

[jazusamo]

Hah! Looks like the price of passing their agenda on is a price some aren’t willing to pay.

[Tail Gunner John]

“newspapers are reexamining their strategies”

If they want to make money again how about TELLING THE F'N TRUTH!!

[festus]

The drop is 2 years out. This is just the opening salvo in a negotiating process. As a big $$ customer AP will respond and the two will work out a pricing model somewhere between APs dreams right now and the AP being dropped.

[Milhous]

Some of the emergent homegrown wire services.

Five of Maine’s daily newspapers plan to begin sharing articles and photographs next week in an effort to combine resources as newspaper revenues decline and reporting staffs shrink. ... And they can credit the story to the reporter and news organization where it originates, rather than to the AP ... Eight newspapers in Ohio this spring began sharing articles. In August, three southern Florida newspapers started swapping stories. The Florida and Ohio deals have reduced the newspapers’ reliance on the AP, the industry’s cooperative news-gathering organization.

[SierraWasp]

As Rush calls it... “The APO” and don’t tell me you don’t know what the “O” stands for!!! (grin)

[ConservativeMind]

Kill the AP at all newspapers!

[ConservativeMind]

Yes, in general terms. Sam Zell is much more conservative than the reporting or editorial staff at almost any newspaper.

[ConservativeMind]

Didn’t see the DMD ping for this.

[george76]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103739/posts

[TaxRelief]

AP is the problem. The MSM may make a comeback if AP is put to bed.

[popdonnelly]

I’m sure Editor & Publisher’s staff is in mourning because their fellow liberals at AP are getting dropped.

We need to support an alternative news service.

[mlocher]

If this keeps up, AP will mean Assimilated Pieces! Vanquish the enemy!

[Question Liberal Authority]

Why buy the cow when you can regurgitate DNC press releases for free?

[bIlluminati]

I’ve heard they were going with AJ (Al-Jazeera). For the LA Slimes, that would make sense.

[MurryMom]

Another big shocker in the Trib today - They endorsed U.S. Senator Barack Obama for President. First time in their 161 year history to endorse the Democratic candidate. They also endorsed Abraham Lincoln, another Illinois senator who made a name for himself in Washington.

Today, I am proud to be a Chicago native!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks geo.

[truthandlife]

Does it have anything to do with the direct relationship of running AP stories in your newspaper and your circulation going down at the same time?

Maybe the newspapers are getting smarter...

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent news.

Zell should just cancel AP now and dare them to take him to court re contracts he didn’t sign in todays economy for fishwraps.

Hey, you lying bastard mediots at AP, you will be unemployed soon. There is not much of a job market for liars unless you are a democrat politician.

[bert]

Are you still alive? I somehow thought you had died and were in the arms of Satan