On October 7, 2009
The AP’s Latest Flabbergasting Idea
At first, I’d hoped this was a parody of a news story, not an actual news story, but the Associated Press is not known for self-parody, so here goes. “The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour, the head of the news organization said Tuesday.” The source for this report is the AP itself. The news cooperative’s CEO, Tom Curley, as quoted by the AP, explained that “products can be reserved, and there can be exclusives given, perhaps on a time-base measure. Those who get access to that content and the rich multimedia or metadata that comes with it might get an exclusive for, oh,…
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