On October 9, 2009
Why Does the AP Chase Phantom Enemies?
The AP’s CEO Tom Curley has made another provocative speech, this time at the World Media Summit in Beijing. Many parts of the speech were well-informed and insightful, particularly about the way the media world is changing and how fundamental those changes are, but Curley also continues to denounce the “free-riders and pirates” who allegedly are the AP’s greatest enemies. Forgive my skepticism, but I have yet to ever hear any actual names, let alone learn the web addresses, of these alleged scofflaws. In order to gain credibility with those of us who cover the media industry, and therefore probably scan more websites, blogs and content aggregator sites than does Mr. Curley, he is going to have to start naming names….
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