Wondering about AP stories, links

"• Why do newspapers pay the Associated Press to distribute their expensive, hard-won stories to radio, TV, Yahoo and other enemies of newspapers?" Baltimore Sun's Jay Hancock wonders.

• "Newspapers run AP as a collective, but the interests of AP and its members have never been further apart. The No. 1 problem for all media is promiscuous content distribution with low or no compensation.

AP makes this worse, striking its own deals and enabling newspapers in their role as content floozies.

• Papers must regain control of their stories, hoard them under their banners and Web sites and stitch them to their subscribers and advertisers.

• If you want Yahoo viewers to read your stories, deal with Yahoo directly, as McClatchy newspapers agreed to last week. Quit AP or revamp it."

From Baltimore Sun article by Jay Hancock, 4/8/07, "Newspapers Need to 'do it different' on Getting Paid."

• (McClatchy will be providing content to Yahoo). I constantly wonder about AP sports stories and their attribution.

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