ODBA member Snapped Shot, shut down by AP, receives national attention

Media giant Associated Press was intimidted by ODBA member Snapped Shot because he called attention to inaccuracies in their work? Where's freedom of speech? Where's freedom of the press? "Old media" crushes down on "new media."

I like the way Jules Crittenden at the Boston Herald put it: "Plucky little Snapped Shot must have really touched a nerve."

Touch a nerve, he did. So the AP set their corporate lawyers on him and shut him down. Let's hope the blogosphere continues to amplify this, that the mainstream media sees it for what it is -- censorship -- and that Brian Ledbetter will be back with his Snapped Shot blog soon.

Hang in there, Brian. We're pulling for you.

The Virginia blogosphere following this story:

- From On High: ODBA Member Makes Waves
- Spark It Up!!! Snapped Shot gets snuffed out
- Isophorone: Islamic Rage Boy Interns at Associated Press (satire)
- Spank That Donkey: Don Beyer To Arise From Political Dead
- Black Velvet Bruce Li: Another Blogger Gets Legal Threats
- Scott's Morning Brew: Snapped Shot blog closed indefinitely ... threatened with legal action

The national blogosphere and MSM following this story ... from Snapped Shot's site ... with Brian's commentary. Check back often as he is updating it regularly:

- Jawa Report
- LGF (link updated)
- Elder of Ziyon
- doubleplusundead
- Ace of Spades
- The National Review (And yes, it does.)
- This Goes To 11 (For the record, I neither endorse nor condone in any way the escalation - described here. For obvious reasons, I hope.)
- Confederate Yankee
- Riehl World View
- Pirate's Cove
- TNOYF (Nice! A famed "TNOYF Top 9 List!" It's definitely #4, btw. ;) )
- Newsbusters, Stop the ACLU, Grizzly Groundswell, Blogger News, Publius Forum (With my deepest gratitude to WTH!)
- Winds of Jihad
- P.C. Perspective
- /.
- A Second Hand Conjecture
- Protein Wisdom
- Al Salibiyyah
- Lamplighter News
- Note To Self
- Bydio
- BVBL
- Support Your Local Gunfighter
- This Ain't Hell, but you can see it from here
- FreeRepublic
- AP Check (sounds like a blog I should associate more closely with!)
= Scott's Morning Brew
- Bob's Bites
- Atlas Shrugs
- Another funny one from TNOYF. Thanks for the laugh, Buckley!
- Jules Crittenden - The Newspaperman speaketh! Thanks, Jules! :)
- Anorak
- The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
- RightNation
- Daily Pundit
- Media Backspin
- Small Dead Animals
- The guys at TNOYF have come across a transcript of the behind-the-scenes AP meeting that resulted in this little SNAFU. I should've known Mahmoud Abbas was involved in this somehow!
- Instapundit links to Jules. Guess that means he missed the couple of e-mails I sent him?
- Mark's Soapbox
- Infidel Blogger's Alliance
- Freedom Folks
- Spank That Donkey
- Wolking's World
- Moonbattery
- This Goes To 11 has identified some "creative" ways to get around copyright issues. I'm not sure that the alteration is dramatic enough for the AP lawyers to notice the difference from the original, though. ;)
- Bill Hobbs
- Blonde Sagacity
- Mister Snitch
- Fellow ODBA member SWAC Girl
- Likelihood of Confusion
- And a funny explanation from fellow ODBA member Isophorone