{"id":552,"date":"2011-03-18T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=552"},"modified":"2011-03-18T01:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T01:35:16","slug":"the-new-york-times-hands-the-first-draft-of-history-over-to-the-bbc-and-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2011\/03\/18\/the-new-york-times-hands-the-first-draft-of-history-over-to-the-bbc-and-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times hands the first draft of history over to the BBC and Guardian."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nyt-metered-paywall-2011-3?op=1\">the paywall<\/a> hasn&#8217;t been a while in the cooking. Noam Cohen from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/technology\/internet\/22wiki.html\">July 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without compensation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s most pleased that sort of thing will stop and the <i>New York Times<\/i> will be cited about as often as <i>The Times<\/i> is these days.<\/p>\n<p><i>Every<\/i> journalist I&#8217;ve spoken to since 2006 uses Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder. Funnily enough, there&#8217;s a distinct lack of donations to the Wikimedia Foundation from newspapers and media organisations. How much did the <i>New York Times<\/i> donate in the fundraiser?<\/p>\n<p>We do this stuff for everyone to use and reuse. Journalists taking full advantage of this is absolutely fine. But claiming we should then pay the papers for the privilege is just a little odious.<\/p>\n<p>I wish the <i>New York Times<\/i> the full fruits of this bold move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that the paywall hasn&#8217;t been a while in the cooking. Noam Cohen from July 2009: So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without compensation. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s most pleased that sort of thing will stop and the New York Times will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2011\/03\/18\/the-new-york-times-hands-the-first-draft-of-history-over-to-the-bbc-and-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New York Times hands the first draft of history over to the BBC and Guardian.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-8U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}