Comments on: news slice: hurts the little guy? http://www.sinpies.com/2007/09/19/news-slice-hurts-the-little-guy/ The U.S. Jambassador to Funkistan Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:11:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Mike Bijon http://www.sinpies.com/2007/09/19/news-slice-hurts-the-little-guy/#comment-52673 Mike Bijon Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:54:40 +0000 http://www.sinpies.com/2007/09/19/news-slice-hurts-the-little-guy/#comment-52673 Why there's no payback from AP to the content writers/producers when their stuff is picked up astounds me. Somehow they're paying the AP for content, but the AP isn't paying them... It's worse that aggregators like Google are promoting the AP as the top content producer AND paying the AP for the privledge. Considering that both of these things are happening and that Google News still has no revenue from advertising, largely for fear of being sued by content producers, really makes you wonder why the AP isn't taking more heat about that situation. This still seems minor considering the volume of the print-to-online transition. I'm trying to wrap my head around the potential effects of WSJ.com dropping it's pay-wall and letting Google in. Why there’s no payback from AP to the content writers/producers when their stuff is picked up astounds me. Somehow they’re paying the AP for content, but the AP isn’t paying them… It’s worse that aggregators like Google are promoting the AP as the top content producer AND paying the AP for the privledge.

Considering that both of these things are happening and that Google News still has no revenue from advertising, largely for fear of being sued by content producers, really makes you wonder why the AP isn’t taking more heat about that situation.

This still seems minor considering the volume of the print-to-online transition. I’m trying to wrap my head around the potential effects of WSJ.com dropping it’s pay-wall and letting Google in.

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