NightBlogger
Who the hell put the “Media Bloggers Association” in charge? They don’t speak for me and they don’t decide the rules, and neither does AP. The Associated Press and corporate media reside in a Norman Rockwell-like bubble. They fail to realize that the days of media monopoly are coming to an end. Newspapers across the country are cutting staff and have seen a steady circulation decline year after year. More and more people flock to the web for unfiltered information and ignore network news. Citizen Journalism is here to stay; media consolidation is an endangered species. If the AP had the slightest sensitivity and foresight to future trends, they would have implemented a Creative Commons license approach to their content to maintain readership and authority in an age of horizontal communication. Now, because of their journalistic megalomania, they’ll lose both. This event should serve as a warning to the rest of the media consolidated world: get with the program or die a slow and agonizing death.
This kind of journalistic megalomania brings me back to the news networks’ impudent and arrogant reaction to the Military Analyst fiasco and Scott Mcclellan’s indictment of mainstream media’s shameful reporting of events leading up to the invasion of Iraq. As Bill Maher was exiled from network kingdom for speaking his mind, the rest of the media’s complicit court jesters served as nothing short of shameful stenographers for the Pentagon. And still, they make excuses for themselves.
Also see:
Bloggers Fight Back Over The Associated Press ‘Fair Use’ Policy