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US newspaper owners are "mad as hell"
Breitbart ^ | April 7, 2009 | AFP staff

Posted on 04/07/2009 9:57:16 PM PDT by Islander7

US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.

The enemy? Websites that use their stories without paying for them.

"We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more," said the chairman of the Associated Press, a cooperative of over 1,400 US newspapers, borrowing a line from the anchorman character in the 1976 movie "Network."

"We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," Dean Singleton said at a meeting this week of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) in San Diego, California.

Singleton's battle cry came just a few days after News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch launched a broadside against Internet giant Google, whose Google News website is one of the most popular news aggregators on the Internet.

"Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked Murdoch, the owner of newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States, where his holdings include The Wall Street Journal and New York Post.

"Thanks, but no thanks," the News Corp. chairman said.

Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, used even harsher language than his boss in describing the situation.

"There is no doubt that certain websites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet," Thomson said in an interview with the newspaper The Australian.

"It's certainly true that readers have been socialized -- wrongly I believe -- that much content should be free," he said. "And there is no doubt that's in the interest of aggregators like Google who have profited from that mistaken perception."

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To: Islander7
"We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more," said the chairman of the Associated Press, a cooperative of over 1,400 US newspapers, borrowing a line from the anchorman character in the 1976 movie "Network."

"We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work
under misguided legal theories," Dean Singleton said at a meeting this week of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) in San Diego, California.

See that??? ROTFLMAO!!! Oh, that's rich!

21 posted on 04/07/2009 10:28:06 PM PDT by roamer_1 (It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
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To: Islander7
I pulled this statement verbatim from a lefty website. I love to play their stupidity against them.

That is rich.

22 posted on 04/07/2009 10:28:13 PM PDT by chief_believer
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To: Islander7

How are they going to stop the independent reporters/bloggers who will step in to fill the gap? Why go with a biased “news product” at all when people on the ground can report globally over the Internet? Most of the “news” you get these days is just filler that’s tossed in while waiting for the next nugget of real news. A pox on them all. The sooner they’re gone, the better!


23 posted on 04/07/2009 10:34:20 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: roamer_1

“We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work”

You mean “Work” that you take verbatum from MoveOn.Borg, DailyKOS, and K-Street lobby firms, and interest groups like NOW, ACORN, and the SEIU, without EVER checking the facts for yourself??

THAT WORK?


24 posted on 04/07/2009 10:36:44 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Why shouldn’t those news sites that “have more” “share” with those less fortunate? get it? lol!

The socialist newsfolk are getting a taste of their own medicine!

Irony!


25 posted on 04/07/2009 10:39:47 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Democrats still want to get Pres. Bush and/or VP Cheney; there might be show trials in 2009.)
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To: tcrlaf

And when sharing information is outlawed only outlaws will have information.

And Guns.

*grin*


26 posted on 04/07/2009 10:40:23 PM PDT by Crim
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To: tcrlaf
“We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work”

I just wonder if he paid copyright fees on that line he "borrowed"

THAT WORK?

That's not a descriptive- just a placeholder for wont of a better term, I am sure. I work harder in the outhouse with AP articles than they do making them... :D

27 posted on 04/07/2009 10:46:47 PM PDT by roamer_1 (It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

(making the “home alone” kid face)

Do you mean?? News stories should be...

“From each according to ability...

“... to each, according to need?”

Problem with really having a laugh about this - I still don’t want AP slant. Even free.


28 posted on 04/07/2009 10:50:21 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Limbaugh 2012)
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To: ChicagahAl

“I can’t imagine that anyone would want to steal the AP’s leftwing propaganda.”

Apparently there are news outlets that are too lazy to make up their own lies. :)


29 posted on 04/07/2009 11:02:29 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Islander7
[”It's certainly true that readers have been socialized — wrongly I believe — that much content should be free,” he (Robert Thomson)said. “And there is no doubt that's in the interest of aggregators like Google who have profited from that mistaken perception.”]

Network television is what conditioned consumers to free information and the beginning of the print media's decline.

30 posted on 04/07/2009 11:03:02 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Islander7
"We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more," said the chairman of the Associated Press, a cooperative of over 1,400 US newspapers, borrowing a line from the anchorman character in the 1976 movie "Network."

Wow. I'm so impressed. (Not.)

Wallow in it, AP. You've earned it.

31 posted on 04/07/2009 11:04:39 PM PDT by Allegra ( Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.)
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To: Islander7

so what...they dont want to share the wealth?? Say it aint so!!!


32 posted on 04/07/2009 11:09:41 PM PDT by Irishguy
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To: Islander7

Get off its lawn?

How appropriate to compare anti-gun, anti-property rights, anti-dependent individual, pro-criminal reporters to a gun-wielding retiree defending his property from a gang of thugs.


33 posted on 04/07/2009 11:25:40 PM PDT by BobbyT
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To: Islander7

Jay Rockefeller said two weeks ago the internet is dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY

This is the same day result

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10200710-38.html

and this is the results of Control Committee’s dry run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jTpQSLCq_Q&feature=related

Newspapers are just lobbing in half-assed support. Yes, lobbing.

If we allow this seperation of citizens and state to go on unabated, in a couple of years extemporaneous lobbing won’t even be necessary.

Another opinion.


34 posted on 04/07/2009 11:32:50 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (She said she wanted a minute, man, but she only needed a second.)
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To: Islander7

You neglect to mention the click through and referral revenue you receive.

Go back to real journalism and maybe you can survive. Problem is, your sway is declining and your ego can’t handle it. Do you really think that you can cram your ideology, bent reporting, editorializing in the news reporting, and shilling for the DNC, down our throats and not pay a price for it?

You wanted a new world, you got it. Now let’s see you compete in it.


35 posted on 04/08/2009 12:01:58 AM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: chief_believer

The WSJ is pretty liberal too, they do run pretty good editorials and columns, most of the time on many issues


36 posted on 04/08/2009 12:04:52 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Kansas58
Forgot to mention in my post, so I'll tag it to yours-since you posted the tax for the environmental damage they do.

Newspapers Cause More Harm Than Cigarette Smokers !!!

Since 0bama has seen fit to charge us a $24.00 per pound tax on tobacco, the news industry should be charged $48.00 per pound of tree they take!

37 posted on 04/08/2009 12:09:28 AM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: Islander7
"We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more," said the chairman of the Associated Press

You created this mess yourselves with dishonest reporting. You've destroyed your own product, and now, you're whining.

GET STUFFED.

38 posted on 04/08/2009 12:12:58 AM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: Islander7
See, also, this story I found linked from DrudgeReport...

Google CEO sees newspaper future in advertising; Google CEO tells newspaper publishers their future is new advertising models.

I love the next to last line in it...

"Schmidt said Google has a multimillion-dollar licensing deal for AP content."
39 posted on 04/08/2009 12:20:36 AM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: libh8er
Wow. When the concept of freebies and entitlement comes to bite liberals in their rear ends, suddenly it's not so fun any more.

Funny, their editorial pages are all in favor of stealing from others, in the form of taxation "for the public good", so why can't newspapers practice what they preach?

40 posted on 04/08/2009 12:35:36 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
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