And this is not first time, AP has stood against it but earlier also there have been many a complaints that are still lying unheeded.

AHN is Fraud. Jacob Charian owes me & 2000.

This is not a post from an EM Sanctioned writer, this is something someone else posted in our comments section, in 2003, no less, from when we were on a different platform. Notice there’s no author name attached to the article. All of our stories are attributed to whichever EM Sanctioned writer, wrote them.

Sorry I wasn’t being clear.

When I worked at the local paper years and years ago we would get calls from the AP who wanted get some information on what happened.

The paper was a community weekly local, not a member of the AP. The AP never had a reporter there… Next thing you’d know there was an AP story based on our work, they didn’t even give us credit, they didn’t pay us and they only said “according to local sources”

That is what I meant.

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In this article you or your “writers”, none of whom are paid it seems has used material from the “Associated Press” and the “Daily Telegraph”.

— Look I don’t think that there is anything wrong with that at all. But this is exactly what AP is saying that AHN is doing.

Except that AHN is paying their “writers” poorly… and you are not paying your “writers” at all.

You may not be “selling” your content per se, but you are Syndicating it.. the benefit to you is still monetary.

Again… I’d argue nothing wrong with it.. but it’s still a violation in “AP Think”.

The theory being that if I pay you for your ideas, I’m paying you to say what I want to hear. Failings aside, we strive to be fair and accurate in our reporting; and that doesn’t happen through planted quotes.

As for ‘local sources’ I think it’s a shame that names aren’t used more often. Granted, there are cases where names can’t be used for safety’s sake, but often times, those ‘public sources’ are people working on staff at local agencies (police, fire, etc.) and are paid by those same agencies to give information to the press.

In fact, the only valid point you make is that member organizations are forced to compete with the greater AP online. That’s one to work out.

Or how about the fact that AP members now have to compete against the AP directly online?

the AP is the biggest leech of all in my book.

Maybe some people are slower than others?

So if Twitter increases its posts to say 500 or 1000 words and those Twittering the reports as they happen while they are in the situation; Mumbai. Then I would think that goes above and beyond reporting (real story) and includes reporting.

Like it or not the AP will lose this long battle. Remember it now, Twitter or something similar to Twitter will take over the AP within the next 5 years.

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AHN isn’t AP’s problem. AP is their own problem.

The AP is a dog that has turned on its master. They now compete directly with their member newspapers online… maybe it’s time to put the doggy to sleep.

I’ve grown to resent some websites like BoingBoing where 70-90% of the content is between blockquote tags. They’re just leeches.