Okay, just to be safe, I plan to avoid all Associated Press articles, period.
However, I'm mystified at the idea that AP objects even to mere links; it doesn't make sense, as links bring more traffic to the AP stories.
In Lincoln some years ago--the very early 1990s--the local television station (CBS) demanded payment by the television cable company, because the cable company carried the station. This dragged on and on, and for a while the cable company threatened to drop the Lincoln station from its line-up.
I could not understand this, because by carrying the Lincoln station, the cable company was widening and increasing viewership of the Lincoln station.
In fact, if anybody should be charging anybody, I thought the cable company should charge the Lincoln station, for bringing to it increased traffic.