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1. Comment - AP sets up a toll booth for bloggers citing its stories

   (Jun 18, 2008 - 11:48 AM)

   Ok, so how much did the AP pay patterico?
   
   http://www.pe.com/ap_new...ty_or_Art_346090C.shtml
   
   "Alex is not into porn he is into funny and sometimes funny has a sexual character," Tiffany wrote in a nearly 2,000-word defense of her husband, posted on a Web site called patterico.com.
   
   Of the several hundred files in the computer folder at issue, "the vast majority was cute, amusing and not in the least bit sexual in nature," Tiffany, a Torrance, Calif., lawyer, wrote. "The tiny percentage of the material that was sexual in nature was all of a humorous character."
   
   The Times account is "riddled with half-truths, gross mischaracterizations and outright lies," she said. She also faulted the media for repeating and embellishing what she described as misleading statements in the Times about the material.
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   Seriously, since they're charging on one hand, I assume they're paying on the other; right?
   
   That's a lot of words from a patterico interview that the AP didn't have, so of course they paid fair usage costs here, right?
   
   Oh who am I kidding.