Associated Mess

When I was a daily journalist I had to get used to Associated Press stealing a few paragraphs from my articles, slapping their own (frequently wrong) headline on the result and calling it journalism. It wasn’t their journalism. It really wasn’t mine, either, just parts of mine. But that was the way they did business. Still do, as far as I can tell, except now they’ve bought into (heck, they lead it sometimes) the Bush-bad, war-bad, economy-bad narratives. So I have to laugh when these frequently-inaccurate thieves threaten to sue over bloggers partially quoting from and linking to their stuff. This is probably the best solution: boycott ’em. This is a funny reply. This is a nice roundup. And this is worth thinking about. People in glass houses, etc.