Posted on 08/05/2009 8:48:20 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
i’m guessing .00001 percent of their audience would be willing to pay
According to the article this seems to be targeted (for now) at Amazon’s Kindle reader. I don’t think that at this point Free Republic would even be on their map....not at this point.
It would only work if all other major news outlets join him: AP, BBC, blah blah blah
That might happen. If Murdoch has any success the others will follow VERY quickly.
...and if that doesn’t bring us into the black, we’ll have to get bailed out by the Fed, which is what we set out to do from the beginning.
Perhaps other news broacasters will follow, but will the audience follow as well? Up until now, Web news sites have relied on ads to support their services. But ads are the major source of income for Google. Why can Google prosper with ads, but news services on the Web loose money?
I don't think a lot of people will subscribe to news services. And these news services will now be missing the front-end portals like FreeRepublic and Drudge that drive traffic to those news sites by posting links to their sites. I think this is a very stupid decision by people who do not understand the Web. Any one can put up a website these days. Any one can shoot video and post it to the Web. Look for a poliferaction of news sources that are not controlled by the big news companies.
No one is going to pay for foxnews.com! The website is awful, and poorly constructed!
LMAO
They just lost my patronage.
Is Murdoch pulling at straws to find a way to finance O’Reilly’s salary?
The newspaper industry is bleeding money and readers. They need a way to continue to provide content and content costs money. Flash ads of dancing people getting cheap mortgages isn’t proving the income to maintain it. Not sure that this model will work because it’s been tried and failed.
In a few years, I envision the internet being like cable TV. You pay for basic access and then pay more for premium content.
Not sure it’ll help the failing print media, but it’s better than closing up shop.
Instead of trying an endeavor that has failed for others in the past, maybe Murdoch should consider making the Fox Broadcast Network a complete mainstream media member by instituting a full news bureau with a 6:30pm nightly newscast and maybe even a late night “talk show” with a conservative slant , of course to counter the liberal hate fests that the MSM employ daily? Red Eye with a studio audience?
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