"More newspapers say they're unhappy with AP" by New York Times News Service | October 20, 2008
And it is NOT just the papers, either!! Take it from a CONSUMER of the CRAP!!!
For most of its 137-year history, The Columbus Dispatch has carried articles and images from The Associated Press. That may end soon.
Unhappy with both the AP service and its price - more than $800,000 a year - the paper on Friday took the once-unthinkable step of saying it would drop the service.
What had been a minor newspaper rebellion against the AP suddenly grew much more serious last week, when Tribune Co., one of the largest newspaper chains, said it would drop out of the association. A handful of papers have made the same move over the last few months, but with the exception of The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, they were relatively small.
:-)
Hey, who wants to PAY for ZIONIST PROPAGANDA and LIES (other than fools like me)?
Tribune voiced no complaints, saying only that it needed to cut costs. But editors and publishers at some other papers have become vocal critics of the way AP operates, saying it charges more than they can afford, delivers too little of what they need, and sometimes acts as their competitor on the Internet.
Translation: AP SUCKS -- something that is not news to this author!
"They seem to have forgotten that they are there to serve us," said Benjamin J. Marrison, editor of The Dispatch.
Yes, Amerika's ZIONIST MEDIA has indeed "forgotten" whom they are SUPPOSED to SERVE? That is why YOU and I are HERE, readers!!!
:-)
The AP says it is trying to save money for its more than 1,400 member newspapers, and all the changes under way will benefit them.
Oh, like LYING US into IRAQ, and LYING about the BAILOUT BILL? That was BENEFITING US, huh? No wonder no one is reading (or believing) AP shit!
Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the AP, said the protests stem from "some element of misunderstanding about what AP is trying to do" and frustration over the papers' finances.
Contractually, newspapers must give two years' notice to drop the service; those that recently opted out have until 2010 to change their minds. AP executives say they suspect some papers are using that notice as leverage to bargain for lower rates. --more--"Yeah, sure they are.
KEEP YOUR FUCKING SHIT PROPAGANDA PIECES, AP!!!!!!
It would SURE MAKE MY DAYS SHORTER and EASIER!!! I wouldn't be here for HOURS upon HOURS raging about JEWSHIT LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
