Thursday, 09 April 2009
Bait?
Just days after declaring that they were mad as hell[1] and weren’t going to take any more websites and aggregators quoting or linking their stories without paying for them (and one day after issuing a takedown to one of their own affiliates over linking to a YouTube service it didn’t even know it was running),[2] the Associated Press (well, actually, Yahoo!) puts up this article debunking the conventional wisdom about smokers’ health care costs.
Now why do you suppose the AP would suddenly publish such an atypical-MSM story, one almost guaranteed to provoke comment, especially in the rightosphere?
Hmmm...?
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Just days after declaring that they were mad as hell[1] and weren’t going to take any more websites and aggregators quoting or linking their stories without paying for them (and one day after issuing a takedown to one of their own affiliates over linking to a YouTube service it didn’t even know it was running),[2] the Associated Press (well, actually, Yahoo!) puts up this article debunking the conventional wisdom about smokers’ health care costs.
Now why do you suppose the AP would suddenly publish such an atypical-MSM story, one almost guaranteed to provoke comment, especially in the rightosphere?
Hmmm...?
Related:
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[1] link to New York Times story, hosted at nytimes.com (requires cookies, sorry). Hey AP, bite me.
[2]comment to the TechCrunch story:
[2]comment to the TechCrunch story:
That would make a great slogan: “You can’t spell “EPIC FAIL†without A.P.â€
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