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AP Gets It Wrong Again: Wants To Restrict Certain Reports To 500 Words

Techdirt

- 1 days and 6 hours ago

It seems that the Associated Press continues to struggle to figure out how to deal with this whole online thing. It's still trying to a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081024/0337562636.shtml"revamp/a its pricing structure after a bunch of newspapers a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081017/0221472571.shtml"canceled/a their contracts as they were pretty pissed off that the AP is effectively a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080519/0305511168.shtml"competing/a with its own member papers. The AP has also had a bit of a run-in with bloggers over its a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080617/0740561432.shtml"ridiculous fair use policies/a. Its latest move seems to, once again, be getting pretty much everything backwards. Famed film critic Roger Ebert is complaining that the AP has sent down word from on-high that a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/death_to_film_critics_long_liv.html" target="_new"all entertainment articles must be 500 words or shorter/a -- including film reviews, interviews, news stories, trend pieces and (best of all) "think pieces." Apparently, if you need more than 500 words to get people thinking, you're a bit too verbose. On top of that, the AP is asking those same entertainment writers to focus on more salacious, attention grabbing stories in picking what to write. br /br / It's not difficult to see what's going on here. The AP is trying to be more "bloggy." Shorter, more attention grabbing pieces? Apparently, it's decided that people online only want to read the quick hits on salacious stories. Of course, despite what some may think, that's not really true. The AP has an opportunity to be better than all of that. It could draw serious attention by creating ireal/i content that people iwant/i, rather than running after the latest fad. But, apparently, that's not in the AP's plan. It has the resources to do what various small-time blogs can't do, but apparently, it's going in the other direction. Perhaps it's not too surprising, but it's no less a mistake. br /br / Yes, short, attention grabbing stories get traffic, but that doesn't mean good, thorough journalism would get ignored. The problem the AP is having isn't that its stories are too long, or not attention-grabbing enough. It's that it still views itself as a gatekeeper of information, rather than an enabler of both news gathering iand/i news distribution. Of course, with each misstep by the AP, a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081029/0233592680.shtml"others/a are quickly moving in to take its place.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081201/0315542987.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081201/0315542987.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081201/0315542987op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=310668f3228829d0fa98131b37a4a031p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=310668f3228829d0fa98131b37a4a031p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=310668f3228829d0fa98131b37a4a031" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=QBI5o"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=QBI5o" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/472579057" height="1" width="1"/

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Chinese figures show fivefold rise in babies sick from contaminated milk

Guardian Unlimited

- 1 days and 11 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/12771?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Chinese+figures+show+fivefold+rise+in+babies+sick+from+contaminated+milkch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=China+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Tania+Braniganc7=2008_12_02c8=1127371c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Chinac13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FChina" width="1" height="1" //divpAlmost 300,000 babies were taken ill due to contaminated milk powder this year, China's health ministry has said; more than five times as many cases as previously disclosed./ppIt also raised the melamine scandal's death toll from four to six infants, underlining the impact of the country's worst safety scare in years. More than 860 babies are still hospitalised, with 154 of those classed as severe cases./ppThe crisis caused public outrage because it is thought the chemical was added deliberately to allow substandard milk to pass nutrition tests and because of the cover-up. /ppSanlu, the firm at the heart of the problems, knew the milk was tainted months before it told local officials. It did not contact Hebei's provincial government for another month - leaving babies to drink unsafe milk until mid-September./ppIn a statement released overnight, the ministry said 294,000 babies across the country had suffered from urinary problems after consuming milk powder laced with melamine. Most received outpatient treatment but 54,000 were hospitalised. In sizable quantities, the substance can cause kidney stones and even failure. /ppThe ministry said it investigated 11 possible deaths related to melamine-tainted milk and ruled five of them out./ppBut several families are convinced their children died because of tainted formula but have not been counted in the death toll. "When the county health bureau first came to us, they said my child died because of the milk powder," Tian Xiaowei, a farmer from Shaanxi, whose one-year-old son died in August, told the Associated Press./pp"But later, when the case was reported to the district health authority, they said there's no proof that the death was linked."/ppA Beijing lawyer who has aided affected families said he believed even more deaths might have gone uncounted because parents had not reported them. Chang Boyang also told AP there was no word on compensation yet./pp"I assume that the government is worried about the situation of the dairies and is afraid the companies may fall if they have to pay for the compensation amid the current financial crisis," he said./ppThe scandal prompted authorities to announce a complete overhaul of the country's dairy industry to improve safety./ppDozens of countries imposed bans and extra checks on Chinese food products, with tests on products ranging from chocolate bars to yoghurt finding traces of the substance. Low levels of the chemical are not thought harmful./ppIt later emerged that eggs also contained melamine because it had been added to animal feed./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china"China/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/E6LXGBeJ1Q-Ksy-0f2_5EvE3D-k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/E6LXGBeJ1Q-Ksy-0f2_5EvE3D-k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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After Layoffs, Newspapers Embrace Content Sharing; McClatchy And CS Monitor Exchange Foreign Reports

paidContent.org

- 1 days and 17 hours ago

pAs the newspaper industry's prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MNI" class="ticker" title="MNI"NYSE: MNI/a) is joining with the non-profit iChristian Science Monitor/i on sharing foreign news coverage on a trial basis. The trial will last for three months and then the two will evaluate whether the combo worked. The exchange will involve two iCS Monitor/i correspondents, one in New Delhi and the other in Mexico City, and two McClatchy foreign correspondents in Nairobi and in Caracas. The arrangement comes two months after McClatchy said it would a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mcclatchy-eliminates-another-1150-jobs-or-10-percent-of-workforce-sees-" title="cut an additional"cut an additional/a 1,150 jobsâ€”10 percent of its workforceâ€”while iCS Monitor/i is a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-christian-science-monitor-shifts-from-daily-paper-to-print-weekly-onlin" title="preparing to shift"preparing to shift/a from a daily to a weekly print pub and going online-only for breaking news. Meanwhile, the Associated Press is a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs-in-2009" title="planning to slash"planning to slash/a 10 percent of its staff next year. a href="http://www.mcclatchy.com/pressreleases/story/2205.html" title="Release"Release/a /p p -- a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003918219" title="Three Florida papers form tie-up with J-school"Three Florida papers form tie-up with J-school/a: The trend of cooperative content has been happening in Florida since August, when three of the state's largest dailies came together to pool resources. Now, the threeâ€”Tribune Company's iThe Sun Sentinel/i, McClatchy's iThe Miami Herald/i, and Cox's iThe Palm (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=PALM" class="ticker" title="PALM"NSDQ: PALM/a) Beach Post/iâ€”are forming a news service with online and print pieces reported by Florida International University j-school students, a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003918219" title="EP reports"EP reports/a. The South Florida News Services launches next month and will run at least until March.nbsp; /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-cnn-positioning-its-wire-service-as-alternative-to-ap/" title="AP Acknowledges Threat From CNN's Wire Service; But Challenger Still 'Needs Improvement'"AP Acknowledges Threat From CNN's Wire Service; But Challenger Still 'Needs Improvement'/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs-in-2009" title="AP to Cut 10 Percent of Jobs in 2009; Mainly Through Attrition"AP to Cut 10 Percent of Jobs in 2009; Mainly Through Attrition/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yes-it-is-bad-newspapers-online-ad-revenues-down-for-q3-as-well" title="Yes, It is Bad: Newspapers' Online Ad Revenues Down For Q3 As Well"Yes, It is Bad: Newspapers' Online Ad Revenues Down For Q3 As Well/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=PPYCku"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=PPYCku" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=tDVrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=tDVrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=atkvO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=atkvO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=BqjUo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=BqjUo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=gw8lO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=gw8lO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YyQUO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YyQUO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472071499" height="1" width="1"/

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Mugabe's power under threat as troops riot over pay

Guardian Unlimited

- 1 days and 22 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/49365?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Mugabe%27s+power+under+threat+as+troops+riot+over+paych=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Zimbabwe%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Chris+McGrealc7=2008_12_02c8=1127150c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Zimbabwec13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FZimbabwe" width="1" height="1" //divpDozens of Zimbabwean soldiers rioted in Harare yesterday, attacking banks after they were unable to withdraw their near worthless pay, in a further sign that Robert Mugabe may be losing control over the forces that have kept him in power./ppThe unarmed soldiers also looted shops and were backed by some civilians as they clashed with riot police who fired teargas to break up the protest. The drastic cash shortages are caused by the country's 231m percent inflation rate, which has led the government to restrict people to withdrawing the equivalent of just 18p a day - not enough to buy a loaf of bread. /ppThe Associated Press reported that gunfire had broken out in the city centre but it was not clear who fired./ppThough not large, yesterday's was the second such protest in a week and reflects a desperation within the military that will be of concern to Mugabe and his allies, who have relied on the army to suppress political opposition. Ordinary soldiers, often hungry and unable to feed their families, have grown disillusioned. If significant numbers were to turn against Mugabe, it could swiftly bring an end to his rule. The president's grip is in any case greatly weakened as Zimbabwe's collapse continues without respite. /ppThe authorities in Harare yesterday cut off water supplies to the city because there are not enough chemicals to treat the water in the midst of a cholera outbreak. /ppThe health ministry yesterday said cholera has now spread to all but one of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces, as sanitation systems break down across the country. The World Health Organisation says about 425 people have died, but medical charities say the real figure is at least double that among the 11,000 reported cases./ppThe UN estimates that 5 million people, about half Zimbabwe's population, will need food aid in the coming weeks./ppThe opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday urged foreign governments to end the "man-made" humanitarian crisis, "as it has reached catastrophic levels"./ppBut there is unlikely to be any significant foreign aid until Mugabe agrees to implement the political deal reached in mid-September that required him to give up many of his powers to Tsvangirai, who was to be appointed prime minister./ppMugabe has so far blocked its implementation by insisting that his Zanu-PF party should control all the key ministries, particularly those responsible for the security forces and finance./ppThe most senior UN official in the country has warned that Zimbabwe could become a failed state similar to Somalia if the power-sharing deal fails./ppAgostinho Zacarias told a delegation led by the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan that Mugabe was more interested in protecting his power and legacy than rescuing Zimbabwe from disaster. /pp"When asked by Mr Annan what would be the future of Zimbabwe were no political agreement reached, Mr Zacarias replied that it would become a 'Somalia', a failed state," said a report by Annan's delegation. "When asked what President Mugabe wants, Mr Zacarias explained that his interest is that of protecting his legacy and that of his political party." /ppMugabe's regime remains defiant. Yesterday it said it would not abide by a Southern African Development Community ruling that the seizure of white owned farms were illegal under international law. /pp"They are daydreaming because we are not going to reverse the land reform exercise," Didymus Mutasa, the security minister, told the Herald newspaper./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/zimbabwe"Zimbabwe/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VskzBcoKfYebI_m1EyiKRgvoowc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VskzBcoKfYebI_m1EyiKRgvoowc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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