AP Copies Google: "If You Can't Beat ‘em, Join ‘em"

In what I must admit is a shocking turn of events, the Associated Press has moved beyond attacking Google (GOOG) and others it has branded as content “thieves” to embrace a page from its opponents’ playbook.

Literally.

In an internal AP memo obtained by Talking Points Memo, a senior managing editor, Mike Oreskes, states that when two AP reporters found that one bookstore had inadvertently placed Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” on sale five days before the official release date, “They bought a copy, ripped it from its spine and scanned it into the system so it could be read and electronically searched.

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