AP PROPAGANDA VS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS CENSORSHIP

This is my comment on the increasing irrelevant AP's desperate last ditch effort to prevent it from going the way of the many bankrupt newspapers that have went before it. [See AP IS DESPARATE TO OUTLAW SEARCH ENGINE LINKING] For the last 30 years or so the AP self censored itself and abdicated its constitutional responsibility to provide America a free press. The Internet for the first time allows true free speech and freedom of the press.

Based on the fact that the AP has sold out to Government, lobbyist and big business by not printing the truth and the whole truth, they deserve no protection in the form of a new revenue stream.

This new revenue stream would only be used once again to kill and spin stories that corrupt government and big business instructs it to. The whole mess we are in is because the AP and Major media were complicit in misinforming the American Public of the wrong doings of Governmetn and big business. Where are their outraged front page headline demands for an accounting of where the original 700B bank bailout went? Where is their stories about how much money the Congressman who voted for the bailouts got in campaign contributions and kickbacks from the companies that received bailout money.

THE IMPOSITION OF FEES FOR WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS "FAIR USE" WOULD LIMIT THE ABILITY OF THE INTERNET SYNERGISTIC PRESS TO COMMENT AND CORRECT THE MISINFORMATION. HOW CAN YOU TELL PEOPLE THE FACTS AND ARTICLES YOU THINK ARE WRONG OR MISLEADING IF YOU CAN NOT CITE THEM AS THE SOURCE OF THE DISINFORMATION WITHOUT PAYING A FEE. SUCH A FEE WOULD STIFLE QUICK AND IMMEDIATE CORRECTION OF PROPAGANDA AND MAKE PEOPLE PAY TO CITE THERE OPPOSITION TO ANY PARTICULAR AP NEWS OR PROPAGANDA THEY DISAGREE WITH.

Therefore, on the basis that the AP violated the public trust and abandoned its Patriot duty to provide unbiased free speech and press to the American Public,

and, that payment of fees would prevent quick and free repudication of the misinformation they disseminate;

The AP should be denied revenue from cites that meet with the current standards of "fair use".

Your friend,

Don - The Cynical Patriot