It’s quite simple really: If the Associated Press wants me never to link to their material, then I’m more than willing to oblige. I have other options.
But I never link directly to AP anyway. I link to sites that may or not be using AP material. So if, for example, I link to the Deseret News, then I will only acknowledge requests or demands from the Deseret News. I do not recognize AP’s standing to ask or demand anything from me one way or the other.
And I wouldn’t have bothered pointing that out, or blogging about this story in any way, until I saw this:
[An A.P. executive] said the company was going to meet with representatives of the Media Bloggers Association, a trade group, and others.
Would that happen to be, by any chance, the same “Media Bloggers Association” that sells worthless blogging “diplomas” and “credentials”?
Maybe the AP should do some investigative journalism about that.
(Via The Crossed Pond.)
