"If The Atlantic, with its top shelf editorial standards, can [quote from a blogger's site without permission], then why can’t a blogger quote AP — almost as if the AP were a person?"

"A series of accusations raised by the U.S. military against an Associated Press photographer detained for 19 months in Iraq are false or meaningless, according to an intensive AP investigation of the case made public Wednesday."

"Australian cricket authorities came under fire on Friday for preventing some news organisations from covering the first test match against Sri Lanka, as a boycott of the event by international news groups continued."

"Do we need professional reporters and editors? Of course. Do we need them to work for the same corporations who controlled and profited from news for 200 years? No."

Rafat Ali: "[AP] CEO Tom Curley …came out swinging against the very partners it syndicates a lot to: the online portals. His speech, posted online, is emblematic of the schizophrenic state of the news media industry: hope and despair all wrapped into a

"The Associated Press is suing Moreover … for copyright infringement for linking to its news. Who knew that people still argued about this stuff? I didn’t know it was still 1996."

AP chief executive Rob Curley: "When someone uses our content without our permission, they are free riding on our newsgathering and our reporting of news from around the world."

Damon Kiesow replies to the AP response to the Google News problem: "’Credit’ is an outdated concept in the digital realm. Giving credit is one thing - linking to the original source is the real thing."

Damon Kiesow, who has shown the major flaw in the Google-AP content deal, has a proposal for how to solve the problem.

Jeff Jarvis on the flaw in Google’s wire service deal, at least as it applies to US local stories picked up by AP: "the Google deal does rob traffic, thus revenue, from the paper that invested in journalism. And that will not help sustain journalism."

The Nashua Telegraph put a story it had broken on the AP wire — and promptly lost Google News traffic to its web site.

Shane Richmond: "From a newsprint point of view wire copy makes perfect sense. It allows us to cover stories that we don’t have resources to cover ourselves. … Online, however, wire copy is redundant."