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on the Google/AP deal / Google to host AP stories instead of linking off to newspaper sites.
“Being a member of the AP made sense when papers were necessary middlemen for people to get their news — papers would pay the AP for electronically-transmitted stories, then reprint them and sell them for a profit to a public that had no better access to the freshest news,” blogger Steve Boriss writes. “But now that the internet and Google News have essentially installed an AP News Terminal on the PC of everyone with broadband service, newspapers who are members of the AP are funding their own destruction.” …More
