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News Corp to charge for all news websites
Business Spectator ^ | Aug 6, 2009 | Staff reporter

Posted on 08/05/2009 3:41:42 PM PDT by upchuck

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1 posted on 08/05/2009 3:41:43 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Who cares, we got Breitbart etc.


2 posted on 08/05/2009 3:42:34 PM PDT by omega4179 ((/) Happened)
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To: upchuck

If Murdoch does what he did to the Wall Street Journal and plans on charging for access, I’m going to short News Corp.


3 posted on 08/05/2009 3:46:10 PM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: upchuck

Like that is going to work....


4 posted on 08/05/2009 3:47:12 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Last Dakotan

You’re right.

As much as I like FoxNews (and I don’t have cable either), I won’t pay for it.


5 posted on 08/05/2009 3:48:28 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: upchuck

Pay up!! Not!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/


6 posted on 08/05/2009 3:49:51 PM PDT by Drago
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To: upchuck

Since FNC is part owned by a 9/11 “Truther” type....has used O’Reilly and Beck to marginalize the Birthers....gives airtime to Jerry Rivers....worked a “truce” between Olbermann and O’Reilly.....should we be surprised that Focks News is moving more and more NY Times leftist....charging for website content?

Of course, this would be huge for WND, Breitbart, and other non-MSM news sites.

FNC and Fox continues its left-ward drift.


7 posted on 08/05/2009 3:50:19 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Know the difference between "conservative" and "republican")
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To: upchuck
We're currently getting these online news products for free, or very cheap. A model where they actually, you know, make money was inevitable.
8 posted on 08/05/2009 3:51:38 PM PDT by Devils Avocado
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Not a bad idea but it won’t get off the ground. There are just too many alternative news sites to get ones news. The only way that charging would work is you have something no one else has and the farther left FOX keeps leaning they start to look and feel just like the rest of leftist mob rules non-News sites so why bother.


9 posted on 08/05/2009 3:52:11 PM PDT by Ron H. (I believe in and practice the 4 Gs : God, Guns, Guts and Garden,)
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To: upchuck
"Quality journalism is not cheap"


10 posted on 08/05/2009 3:53:17 PM PDT by BossLady (Obama = "Narcissus and the Pool of Corruption")
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To: upchuck

People **might** (possibly, maybe) pay for a consortium of news sites and viewpoints that are not owned by a single entity like News Corp.

And by “consortium” I mean a package of 50 or 100 or 150 sites (blogs, publications, infozines, video, etc) that offer quality product, quality reporting, quality writing.

You pay one price for a package of cable TV or sat radio offerings, and it should (could?) be no different for “print” media.

Paper distribution has its virtues but those are fast diminishing with the likes of Amazon Kindle. My family TV viewing is probably 75 percent streaming Netflix, and I am increasingly annoyed at having to handle those shiny Netflix disks (aka DVDs) anymore.


11 posted on 08/05/2009 3:53:38 PM PDT by angkor (The United States Congress is at war with America.)
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To: vladimir998

I don’t even have their web site bookmarked. Its a pos, so, good luck to him.


12 posted on 08/05/2009 3:55:12 PM PDT by John W
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To: Devils Avocado

I agree. MOST of my news comes from FR anyways. It’s got everything from sports, comics, entertainment and news.


13 posted on 08/05/2009 3:55:36 PM PDT by max americana
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>>>> We’re currently getting these online news products for free, or very cheap <<<<

True, but the preposterous NY Times model of offering **only** it’s own news and op-ed is a total loser.

Publishers need to form a consortium of online offerings in exactly the same manner as cable TV networks, and offer their wares as an affordable variety package of reasonably high quality.

I say this as one who helped to launch a few successful Web-based publications from 1994 though 1996 (yes, 1994).


14 posted on 08/05/2009 3:59:29 PM PDT by angkor (The United States Congress is at war with America.)
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To: Last Dakotan

Might. Might not. I doubt Time Warner and other also rans would have a chance of pulling this off, though.


15 posted on 08/05/2009 4:00:41 PM PDT by dr_who
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Lol, he thinks people are going to pay for Fox News online?

That's funny right there.

I can read plenty of "when celebrities attack" on other yellow journalism blogs.
16 posted on 08/05/2009 4:04:22 PM PDT by mysterio
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Only a moron pays for the WSJ site. All you have to do is access any article from Google and you get the whole article for free. There’s even an addon for Firefox that lets you simulate where you are coming from, and you set it to Google, and then you’re in like Flynn.

The problem for dead-tree publishers (DTPs) is that they can either have a pay site, or an ad-supported site, but not both. Furthermore, either way, the possible online revenues are orders of magnitude below what the DTPs are currently obtaining from both their DT subscribers and advertisers.

Basically, they’re f**ked no matter what they do. And about time too!


17 posted on 08/05/2009 4:04:34 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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To: upchuck

Good luck with that business model, Rupert. I’ve been trying for years to get people to pay for things I’ve written that are on the Internet, with didly squat to show for it. I suspect the big boys are getting pinched just as hard.


18 posted on 08/05/2009 4:11:57 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: upchuck

The FoxNews.com layout sucks, so I don’t read them anyway. No big deal to me.


19 posted on 08/05/2009 4:19:19 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: upchuck

DOA


20 posted on 08/05/2009 4:22:53 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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