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Murdoch: Papers Must Charge for Web News
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April 6, 2009
Rupert Murdoch, whose media company News Corp owns one of the few U.S. newspapers that makes people pay to read its news on the Web, said more papers will have to start doing the same to survive.
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“People reading news for free on the Web, that’s got to change,” said Murdoch speaking at The Cable Show, an annual cable television industry event, in Washington, D.C.
Murdoch pointed to the Journal’s main rival in the United States, The New York Times, as an example. The Times has one of the most popular U.S. newspaper websites, but still cannot cover its costs with online ads, he said.
Murdoch’s newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the Times of London and other papers in Britain and Australia, which are available online for free. The Journal had been charging for access for years before News Corp bought it.
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:27 am
hahaha! ahhhhh….poor billionaire didn’t get to fuck the people over for useless advertising dollars? you can rot in a gutter you elite slime,your time is over,power to the people.
masterkyiron Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
well said!
cut the funds or die Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Let them charge. We dont wont give a dime for their lies and trash rags – whether in paper or electronic form. These shit holes should sink back to the sewers from whence they came.
Kick these dogs to the curb online, just like we did with their print editions. Quick riddance to Rot rubbish!
cut the funds or die Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
When they take our tax bailouts to sustain their excrement in ink- RISE UP and demand it stop. Hackers get ready!
Wayland Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 3:43 am
If the advertisers don’t think it’s worth paying to be on the news website then the readers won’t either. After all a website is a very inexpensive way to reach people. He will kill the popularity of his website by charging.
Awake Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
That’s okay, o’l Rupert will just have your ISP’s slip in a little “fee” on your subscription. You know that is coming. He and they are not that stupid. Where there is a will, there is a way. FCKING slimes, you will pay on your judgement day, yes Rupert, you will pay and from the looks of you, it is coming very soon you old koot!
April 6th, 2009 at 11:34 am
i hope all the mainstream media outlets go broke. partnering with crooked politicians, the media is the enemy of the people.
Social Viability Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Fear not. They will.
The internet has fragmented the control of information. This is fragmenting the power and control of the governments. Soon the national governments that protect the bankers will crumble.
When the central bankers crumble, the corrupt corporate media will lose their benefactors and die too.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://socialviability.com/
April 6th, 2009 at 11:35 am
“People reading news for free on the Web, that’s got to change”—Rupert Moloch
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Go ahead and charge for online news because that will ultimately backfire on you! Less people will pay for lamestream media propaganda and go to alternative media such as independent media websites and blogs. Rupert & Co.—>Don’t cry because your globalist plan is falling apart!
April 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am
i completely agree. I agree that any news that Murdoch is tied too people should be charged to read because after all it’s just entertainment and I’m not stupid enough to take it at face value
TheGhost Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
or stupid enough to pay one dime for filtered propaganda, this is going to absolutely backfire.. the american consumer (since we’re no longer citizens) is not going to willingly pay for information that they can just as easily find and read for free somewhere else just because you slap your News Corp label on it, goddamn doesnt it just piss you off that the richest and most powerful people in the world are completely fucking braindead??
April 6th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I agree!! These guys are too funny! MSM is GARBAGE ANYWAY
April 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Stupid old croney… No one is going to pay for web news.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Rupert Murdoch has no clue what is really goin’ down in the Streets.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am
All he has to offer to the world is crapoganda, and I have no money to offer for it.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:53 am
That is CLASSIC!!! We have to pay to read his papers’ lies! ROFLMAO! Rup, if you had a ligitimate media organization maybe you would get readers and then advertisers. What a dimwit.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:55 am
As many have stated the general public will not buy subscription to a newspaper, that repeats produced lies. By large the so called journalism has died around mainstream media long time ago, world wide.
How would Infowars.com and such get news, then? Journalism does not require a government approved education to work. By digging up enough anyone can write or video and post them to YouTube or similar services without a charge. Then services like Infowars.com can use that and act as a channel to gather, just like now, the most important news.
In short; this is how capitalism works. Competition is killing unwanted service.
HillbillyJihad&TheBubbaLiberationFront Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Capitalism??? WTF did you get that??? Cheese and Crackers people still think that’s real??? It no longer exists bro’!!! Off the fuckin’ charts!!!! Wait…I gotta’ Groom my Stool!!! That’s better. “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
April 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
w w w . u m u n u . c o m
Alex is finally expos ed!
April 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
So you can’t afford to spend millions lobbying congress for special privileges in controlling the airwaves and make a profit through advertising?
Your business model which is based on astronomical lobbying costs is now broken. What a shame!
Your next step will be to go to the Military Industrial Complex with hat in hand asking for subsidies since the MIC can’t survive without your propaganda. Expect the MIC to fully subsidize the media.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I’ll never pay to read the news and it’ll be a cold day in hell when I would ever give money to Rupert Murdoch.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I dont buy newspapers either they are full of shite so theres not a hope in hell of me payin for the web news.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
rupert scumloch wants to charge me to tell me his lies? wow, he really is a sociopath.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Heh go the right fuck ahead…let fox go down the tubes we will get our sources from other more creditable news agencies. They already blow me with state sales tax for online purchases now and then he drops the ball with this nonsense.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
If you are a paper that had any articles on 9/11 in which, you didn’t speak the truth in order to keep your job. Then you are a news company I want nothing to do with. Paper or web.
I wouldn’t wipe my ass with your paper.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I don’t likes reading the Sun or the News of the World newspapers or most of the mind numbing dumb downed newspapers here in Britain Rupert so you can charge what you like for all i care.
Long live the Independent newspress i say!!.
April 6th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
you guys dont see the bigger picture – this is part of the plan to get rid of the internet, as the government cannot control it. first they will say its not working properly, then they will say it is a threat to national security due to cyberattacks (david rockerfeller has actually already said this), and then they will say its a waste of money. this will then be replaced with an internet 2, a list of sites pre-approved by the government which you will have to pay for probably through tax.
the news story here is a transition into it. by getting people used to paying for the news. this is adjusting the population into the idea of a a pay-per view system which will be the internet 2 the government want to introduce.
snow3d Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I agree, this is nothing but a ploy to justify killing the free internet.
It’s does however bring some satisfaction to hear billionaires whine about losing money.
April 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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Is this for real?? What do you think?!
http://www.warnthepeople.org/the-open-forum.html
April 6th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Hey Alex, tell the crooks in Washington your going broke. Maybe they will spot a few million so you can get the truth out!! lol
April 6th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
…and then news archive torrents flood the internet. Goodbye old media, won’t miss you a bit.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
HEY MURDOCH GO SCREW YOURSELF YOU DUMB FUCK !!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
so this guy actually thinks people are READING his news? LOL…people are going to the web to find real sources…not to get free news. Guy’s a moron.
April 7th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Hey Turdcock,
Suppose you just hold your breath
until we PAY to read propaganda from
one of your lousy web sites.
See, you’re already blue in the face, SHITHOG!
April 7th, 2009 at 12:57 am
I love it. Hopefully a lot of people wont pay to read the propoganda and will start looking for “alternative” news sources.
Hello Alex Jones!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Hey Murdoch? Get In LINE!
April 7th, 2009 at 11:12 am
the government and the media doesn’t know how to tell the truth, never did. fuck all you assholes. buy guns, ammo, food, clothing, fuel.
April 7th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Wake up Rupert nobody pays attention to the main stream news any more you JACKASS
April 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Rupert you take take a long hard suck on my arshole and that goes for that milky wife of yours too!
April 7th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Stop the discussion CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL
April 7th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Hey Rupert (who would name their kid Rupert?) I never read your stinking paper anyway. Havent had a paper in 20 years when I knew you were a manipulating lying piece of dog sh*t. So screw you. I wont give you a nickel for your subscription on line so f u. I would give a nickel to see your old puss sack face ripped of and and poop in the hole. I could then use your rag paper to wipe my ass and set fire to it.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Great! Let’s them charging all of the Murdoch’s news. Please not free!
April 8th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
This topic is quite trendy on the Internet at the moment. What do you pay attention to while choosing what to write ?
April 8th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
when will these idiots learn.most people may not know or understand whats happening in the world,but they know when something is not right. when newspapers lie daily to there readers people will stop buying the papers,when t.v news lies daily people will stop watching or go elsewhere for there news.when t.v. shows are full of brainwashing propaganda people will just turn off there t.v. these basterds think we are all stupid.they do not live in our world nor do they really understand us.they think they do but how can they.
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