{"id":1041,"date":"2008-06-17T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T21:16:26","slug":"ap-fixes-price-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/06\/ap-fixes-price-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t quote me: AP &#8211; US$2.50 a word to bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1039\" href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/06\/ap-fixes-price-word\/ap-logo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright frame size-medium wp-image-1039\" title=\"AP logo\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-logo-228x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-logo-228x166.jpg 228w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-logo-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-logo.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"drop_cap\">B<\/span>oy, has <strong>AP<\/strong> picked <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hqcKwCoLO6JDount0qNG9XSrvojwD91BEK6O0\" target=\"_blank\">a lousy battleground<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/2008\/06\/16\/ap-hole-dig\/\" target=\"_blank\">the online war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what it regards as fair use of its material, take a look at its price menu below (and &#8211; ok &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to squint).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1038\" href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/06\/ap-fixes-price-word\/ap-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter frame size-medium wp-image-1038\" title=\"AP price list\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-228x106.jpg\" alt=\"AP price list\" width=\"228\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-228x106.jpg 228w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap-100x46.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ap.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Non-profits get a modest discount.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I try to link not quote by the yard, but charging $12.50 for the privilege of repeating five (yes, 5) words is sheer madness &#8211; you only have to imagine quoting a story about <strong>&#8216;UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon&#8217;<\/strong> and the meter is running! Then there&#8217;s the hyphen. One word or two?<\/p>\n<p>What about <strong>&#8216;President George W. Bush&#8217;<\/strong>? Is the &#8216;W.&#8217; a word?<\/p>\n<p>Real journalism does cost money, and is worth supporting, but this <strong>really, really, really, really, really<\/strong> (that&#8217;s $12.50 please) is not the way to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, has AP picked a lousy battleground in the online war. If you want to know what it regards as fair use of its material, take a look at its price menu below (and &#8211; ok &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to squint).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}