I never thought I'd see the day when one of the world's biggest and oldest wire services would be asking for handouts. Yet there it is, at the top of the Associated Press' home page - a plea for donations. The wire service has been around for 177 years but this is the first time I've seen this. 

A sad commentary on the state of journalism and what the Internet has done to the business. It would seem the "free press" is increasingly no longer free...