What is the shot they took at him? And where did you get the idea that Drudge has more readers than the NYT? That’s ridiculous.

What AP reports is of public interest and debate. Its very job is open to debate.

So, AP can stop nobody, as long, as I say, as the writer attributes AP-written and originated material to AP. Quotes of individuals within the story written by AP can be attributed to the speaker alone, unless you play an AP recording of it. Then, you gotta give AP credit cuz copyright goes to form, and the recording is the AP form.

Where AP quotes somebody, a blogger can quote that body directly, without AP attribution, cuz the quote is a fact apart from AP. A blogger doesn’t have to write, “This guy told AP….” The blogger can say, “This guy said…”

However, when you use a recording of the person AP interviews, you are using the FORM and you are required to credit AP. Copyright goes to form, not content, and certainly not to stream of consciousness statements. That’s why, when using a recording of “Meet the Press,” another network has to credit NBC. However, if I quote what James “the Snake” Carville said on MtP, I don’t have to say that he said it on MtP cuz NBC has nothing to do with his statement. Carville’s form is his, not NBC’s.

By the way, where universities and colleges say that professors’ teachings in class are copyrighted, that’s not true cuz stream of consciousness cannot be copyrighted.