The Associated Presss (AP) Needs to Go Extinct
Thursday, April 9th, 2009If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
My friend Christian interviewed the TN radio station that got in trouble with the Associated Press for embedding video from the AP YouTube Channel. This should never have erupted in the first place, but since we’re having a conversation about the AP, why don’t we really examine what it is - a highly politically motivated excuse for radio stations and newspapers to justify laying off reporters. As media consolidated and laid off talented journalists during the last decade, it became all too easy for media manipulators to blast their messages through a single channel. I’ll admit, I did it, and I’m not proud of it. AP is a dinosaur, I hope media outlets will realize that it is as toxic for them as Walmart was for small town economies. Only when its gone or has been rendered toothless will media outlets get back to the business of creating content themselves. There’s no money or unique audience in syndicated news. The new media landscape is all about unique voices and targeted audiences… which we should all be grateful that the leadership at the AP doesn’t get.
