I went there and signed up for member info when it becomes available, and sent Cox an e-mail with my concerns. I might post it.

This should be a two way street, mutual respect for work should be the rule in publishing.

As an odd aside, when Murdoch fired the WSJ editor I wrote a scathing post, the headline appeared on WSJ Online through Blogburst. It was not my first attack on the Murdoch purchase of WSJ and Sitemeter has recorded their interest. Off topic, but odd enough I thought is might interest.

You underestimate him at your own risk.

I sense that they’ll be too easily rolled.

I maintain that we have the right to save entire articles to our hard drives (AP doesn’t), so that we can compare what they wrote about an event during, say, Hour 1 to what they wrote 12 hours later (meanwhile, Hour 1’s report would have disappeared).

That is an essential element of monitoring what these guys do, because it reveals how their mindset changes original raw news stories.

There’s also the issue of AP or other media outlets flushing reports down the memory hole if subsequent events make them look like fools. Though google cache and archive.org make that a big difficult, they don’t hang on to every iteration, and the news orgs can prevent Internet archiving from happening.

I doubt that MBA is even considering either of these or other related points.

These are among the points FreeRepublic wanted to make 10+ years ago before the LA Times made it clear that they were going to wear FR down financially if they didn’t settle.

I suppose they havent heard of me either.