Old media is epitomized by no news source more than the Associated Press. Literally thousands of journalists are employed around the world to bring current event coverage to readers of thousands of newspapers and their online sites.
pre-Internet days the AP had little competition beyond a few other news AP's world has now changed forever with the advent of blogs and news aggregation sites.
Blogs are the new "AP" journalists and aggregation services which started with NewsLinx.com in 1996 (Google News, Topix, Techmeme, WebProWire and the new Blogrunner have made the AP much less relevant. There are reported and analyzed by Moreover for of all things... linking to AP stories. Does the AP not realize that winning this suit would result in less readers of their stories? The old news order is dead, the AP will have to adapt or die.
AP President and CEO Curley does seem to realize that something has to change. In a Curley remarked:
" We -- the news industry -- have come to that fork in the road. We must take bold, decisive steps to secure the audiences and funding to support journalism’s essential role in both our economy and democracy, or find ourselves on an ugly path to obscurity."Right .... like blogs and news aggregation and linking! Does the AP really get it? I personally don't think so. Tom Curley's entire speech on how news is changing does not even mention blogs or news aggregation. He also seemingly references his linking lawsuit when telling the audience ...
" We have the power to control how our content flows on the Web. We must use that power if we’re to continue to be financially secure and independent enough to speak truth to power."The Associated Press model of news is dead ... syndicators like the AP obsolete. Bloggers themselves, by linking to related stories have also become content AP's relevance has disappeared. The
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