Bad News Is Good News
As Tribune Co. gives notice it plans to drop AP. It’s about $$$, not the anti-American, pro-terror, Obamist slants. Editor & Publisher:
Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began.
Tribune, which owns nine daily papers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, joins a growing list of newspapers that have sought to end AP contracts, or given notice of that, following plans to introduce a new controversial rate structure in 2009. The notice was given earlier this week.
AP Spokesman Paul Colford confirmed the cancellation notice, but said he had no more specifics. He issued the following statement about it:
“We understand that in this climate a lot of newspapers are re-examining their strategies. The Associated Press will continue to work with all members of the cooperative to ensure that we are providing the most efficient, valued and essential news service for them.”
And it is very nearly essential. Partly because it has a near-monopoly as a wire service in the United States. Also, for a deeper understanding of how biased the news can be, and how purposefully incompetent, counter to the interests of a free world, a news organization can be.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:58 pm on Thursday, October 16, 2008
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October 17th, 2008 at 6:52 am
As a Tribune reader, I’ll have to add that the awfulness of AP likely wasn’t a factor at all for the decision. The Trib’s content is just as bad as AP’s, and it’s evident that inside of Tribune Tower, they don’t even know how bad they’ve become.
They’re every bit as insular and self-absorbed as any AP drone.
The Trib’s problem is just money. They just finished a makeover of the paper that seriously reduced actual content and padded the inches total back up with pictures and celeb features, right in what used to be the news section.
This is the paper that forcibly installed Barack Obama in the Senate, after all.