AP's Latest "Hot News" Scheme Highlights AP's Total Ignorance of the Internet
In it's latest attempt to save itself without actually changing any of it's obsolete business model:
Come on! How on earth can the AP promise exclusivity on a news story? Let's say NewsSite.Com pays AP $10,000 for an exclusive 30-minute window on breaking news reported by the AP. How can the AP promise the OtherNewsSite.com won't get the same story from another source seconds after it breaks on the AP? Anyone who witnesses or even hears about a major event can then "report" on it and thanks to ye ole internet, that information can travel instantly to any and all who are interested. This whole notion of having rights to news is complete absurd and then trying to sell some sort of magical blanket of exclusivity pushes things into the realm of the flat out impossible.These sorts of schemes by the AP and lots of other dying big media companies just makes it terribly clear that it is their failure to understand how the internet works and how it is used that has led to their (likely) demise.
The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour, the head of the news organization said Tuesday. (via AP, ha!)
Come on! How on earth can the AP promise exclusivity on a news story? Let's say NewsSite.Com pays AP $10,000 for an exclusive 30-minute window on breaking news reported by the AP. How can the AP promise the OtherNewsSite.com won't get the same story from another source seconds after it breaks on the AP? Anyone who witnesses or even hears about a major event can then "report" on it and thanks to ye ole internet, that information can travel instantly to any and all who are interested. This whole notion of having rights to news is complete absurd and then trying to sell some sort of magical blanket of exclusivity pushes things into the realm of the flat out impossible.These sorts of schemes by the AP and lots of other dying big media companies just makes it terribly clear that it is their failure to understand how the internet works and how it is used that has led to their (likely) demise.
1 comment
Oct 07, 2009
said...
Wow.. have they not heard of cut & paste.. Like a plodding dinosaur, the media industry sees the asteroid approaching..
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