In a post from Wednesday, Associated Press praises Apple iPod nano, takes swipe at Microsoft WMA-based also-ran music services, we quoted AP’s Matthew Fordahl:
“Like all iPods, the Nano only works with Apple’s free iTunes software for either Windows and Mac OS X computers. That locks you into the iTunes Music Store, which remains the most impressive site for buying music online. The Nano supports a variety of music formats, but not Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media. (Look elsewhere if, for some reason, you would rather pay monthly subscription fees for music that’s rendered unplayable if you miss a payment).”
Within the MacDailyNews Take, we suggested, “Let’s have a contest to see which, if any, media outlets edit those lines in their reprints.”
Well, we called it and sharp-eyed MacDailyNews reader, “mike” wins the “contest,” as he has just forwarded us the link to CNN’s version of the syndicated AP article. CNN has seen fit to drop Fordahl’s parenthetical comment. CNN’s revised article reads:
Like all iPods, the Nano only works with Apple’s free iTunes software for either Windows and Mac OS X computers. That locks you into the iTunes Music Store, which remains the most impressive site for buying music online. The Nano supports a variety of music formats, but not Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media.
Now why would CNN drop the “(Look elsewhere if, for some reason, you would rather pay monthly subscription fees for music that’s rendered unplayable if you miss a payment)” portion of Fordahl’s original article? That bit seems to be the only thing CNN has cut. A quick Google search shows over 100 outlets have the same syndicated article and the 20 or so that we checked all kept Fordahl’s original article intact.
CNN is a Time Warner Company. Today’s Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Microsoft is in talks with Time Warner about taking a stake in the media giant’s America Online unit, as part of a broader discussion about the two companies working together.” (subscription required for full article)
It’s interesting how the media works sometimes, isn’t it?
CNN’s article here.
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Associated Press praises Apple iPod nano, takes swipe at Microsoft WMA-based also-ran music services – September 14, 2005
Wow. Who wudda thought – that pretty strong circumstantial evidence would indicate that two big multi-million dollar companies (including one who’s express purpose in life is to inform the public), in the process of making a huge financial deal together, would actually collude to do something contrary to the public good … like, er, censorship … all for the sake of something so crass as money? I mean, really … what are the odds?
Please, my dear fellow posters, forgive me a moment of righteous indignation, as I’m frequently cast as a chicken little here for ascribing the same motivations for another topic (don’t worry – I won’t go to far off the end). All I want to say is; the next time I try to warn you guys about the extent of such behavior, of the almost endless ‘machinations’ by our large – and largely ‘clubby’ – corporate citizens, and the impulse grips you to let fly with the accusation of me of being paranoid … JUST-REMEMBER-THIS-STORY.
Those of us who have been on the inside already know – stuff like this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Now back to our regularly scheduled, capitalist corptocracy controlled programming <sarcasm> …
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“Look elsewhere if, for some reason, you would rather pay monthly subscription fees for music that’s rendered unplayable if you miss a payment.”
How is that statement factually incorrect? The review is discussing the iPod Nano. Can I pay a montly subscription fee for music on my iPod Nano? No. Therefore, I must look somewhere else.
Besides, “Technology – Product Reviews”
Sounds like a review to me not a news story.
How will this play on the AOL screen names used to sign into iTunes?
“I know this because Tyler knows this”
/the first rule of …
CNN is about as right-wing as you can get. Nancy Grace, Wolf Blitzer, Kyra Phillips… geez, even their anchor Daryn Kagan is engaged to Rush Limbaugh.
The fact that certain tools call CNN the Clinton News Network, when it was instrumental in getting Clinton impeached for a blow job, and getting Apple board member Al Gore defeated, while at the same time marching in lockstep with the Bush administration in its march to war based on lies about WMD, should show everybody how skewed our country is to the far, far, far right. The anti-black, anti-gay, anti-evolution, anti-Muslim, anti-poor people far right.
Don’t forget Bill Clinton (who’s a fairly right-wing democrat who instituted Republican policies Nafta, free trade and welfare reform) is a friend of Steve Jobs.
Jackasses.
If you want a real news site then try the much acclaimed BBC one at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Refreshingly free of commercial interests and bias. Note the lack of annoying adverts.
Notice that the more progressive posters come across as more intelligent than the fans of Faux News?(probably because they are)… Too bad america is creeping into ‘corporatism’ aka Fascism, if only we had a true liberal media keeping tabs on the Ruling class, media is supposed to be liberal. go to rense.com for much more interesting if not more factual takes on current events. turn off Corporate news network, and Faux News.
A question that has been raised is: would the discussions between M$ and AOL mean the end of AOL users buying music off iTMS?
Personally I doubt it as I recall the contract between iTMS and AOL is for a very long period and not to mention should AOL drop its connection what happens to all those AOL customers who already have purchased music, would those tracks become illegal to play and own?
It is my hope that it would be both or that AOL decide that it would be pointless to drop iTMS. As AOL will have to pay Apple contractual breaking compensation along with their own users to compensate them for their iTMS purchases.
Remember folks all these companies are out for one thing, to make money, the only add on would be for M$ wanting to dominate and obliterate competition it has in any markets it is involved in.
CNN sucks. It always has. And to boot… it has such a strong anti-semetic thread running through its reporting… it was once kicked out of Israel until the network issued a formal apology. And The BBC? Come on… I remember watching the international news shortly after one of the countless horrid terrorist attacks that israel routinely suffers… and what was the BBC reporting on? The family of the suicide bomber. Disgusting. And then there’s ABC News. Well… not all of ABC News… but certainly Peter Jennings. Considering how tightly planted Jennings’ lips were on Arafat’s anal sphincter, I am surprised he didn’t get buried with the guy when he was entombed.
Fox really is the only decent outlet. The simple reason Fox is so often maligned is for the VERY simple reality that it stands alone. The REST of MASS media is so exceptionally LIBERALLY politically motivated… its not even funny. You want a good book to read? Check out Bernie Goldberg’s “Bias: a CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.” Its on amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895261901/qid=1126834398/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/103-0336242-8043856?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Amen, Edward! CNN really sucks big time!!
BBC can be interesting, but they lean a little too much to the (pinko) left.
PT Barnum
a fellow Farker i see
fark.com
the only place I go for my news, and fun.
lends a whole new meaning to ‘Microsoft Money’.
Fox News all da way baby!!! Go O’reilly! CNN is a news station of the past.
CNN = Communist News Network?
CNN = Clinton News Network?
How about:
CNN = Conniving News Network?
CNN = Censorsed News Network.
Slogan: News we can depend on.
Heroin-
If CNN is too Conservative for you, the only option is to chuck it all away and go live on a commune with your Marxist friends.
By the way…. Clinton got Clinton impeached; not the media. If a blow job is no big deal, then why is Hillary hell bent on getting a “secret” blow job removed from a frickin’video game?? It’s okay to kill cops in the game… just no BJs.
Silent majority my friend. As in liberals make the noise, but are NOT the majority.
What? – excellent post.
davida – oh please, STFU and go splash on some patchouli oil. You stink (much like your opinion).
Living on a commune? Sounds like a good idea. I could follow in the footsteps of Steve Jobs.
See you at next year’s America Supports You Freedom March.