MUCH like the rest of 'dat ol' media' and Hollywood, Associated Press has been one of the more vocal offenders and battlers against Fair Use doctrine. It was therefore amusing to find them spreading their videos in YouTube, free of charge. Yes, no less than 10976 of them! Here is one which is relevant to us.
As a totally separate side note, earlier today I dumped CNET after years as a feeds subscriber. That site has become utter trash and it's filled with Microsoft and Apple 'advertisements' to the rim (mostly disguised as blog posts). Here is a short list of recommended news sites that are trustworthy:
Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop
it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually
