An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Banning the AP

LGF:

Lots of fallout today from the Associated Press’s self-defeating decision to threaten legal action against web sites that link to and quote their articles.

Techcrunch says they’re banning the AP: Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned.

Not a bad idea, but kind of difficult to carry out, since the Associated Press is literally everywhere, and many news sites often use sections of AP articles combined with their own reporting....

I'm in. I never liked them anyway.

See also: The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs