AP non-profit

Here’s something I never would have guessed:  The Associated Press is a non-profit organization.  It was mentioned in passing in this article I found on Drudge, “AP to meet with blogging group to form guidelines : AP and blogging group to discuss possible standards for quoting AP news stories online.”  How can they be independent of the government if they’re non-profit? 

I hope nobody is going to tell me, “What’s so strange about that?  After all, the Drudge Report is a non-profit, too.  And so is Rush Limbaugh’s outfit.”  They aren’t really, are they?