Matthew Ingram posts a comment from an AP staffer regarding the AP/Google partnership:
“AP’s state wires, which include member content, are not licensed to Google and other online aggregators.
As a result, only a tiny fraction of the national and international stories sold by AP to aggregators originated with members of the cooperative – typically scoops [...]

UPDATE: A follow-up to this post is here
It is strictly 'inside baseball' stuff but in their blogs Jeff Jarvis and Matthew Ingram picked up on our recent experiences with the Google News / AP partnership.
It started with some comments left elsewhere on Matthew's blog regarding the way Google News now gives priority to AP wire [...]