Associated Press to cut jobs by 10%

The Associated Press has taken bias and corruption to new levels. You might remember their photographer, Bilal Hussein, who took a series of pictures in Iraq that appeared to be staged. Not only that, but he always happened to be in the right place at the right time. If a bomb blew up in a market, you can bet that Hussein just “happened” to be on the scene to snap photos.

AP has been especially contemptious of blogs, who do the work the mainstream media refuses to do. They recently prohibited blogs from quoting from their work, despite the fact that the Fair Use Doctrine allows reasonable quotes of copyrighted works, and even more use of works that are being critiqued. AP apparently wants to go back to the time when they controlled what was reported, and no one questioned their accuracy.

Those days are gone, AP, and your days are numbered. You are the dinosaurs who have just dimly noticed that an asteroid has hit the earth.

Dinosaur picture shamelessly stolen from my buddy Kate at Small Dead Animals. To quote her:

“The news industry has deliberately alienated anything up to half its potential audience, as seen by the comments on here. Has there ever been an industry which committed commercial suicide in this way, turning its former customers into active enemies?”