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MURDOCH'S BIG GAMBLE: WE'LL CHARGE FOR ALL OUR NEWS SITES!
http://drudgereport.com/ ^
| 08/05/09
| Drudge
Posted on 08/05/2009 3:03:12 PM PDT by markedmannerf
MURDOCH: 'WE PLAN TO CHARGE FOR ALL OF OUR NEWS SITES'...
'WE WILL START CHARGING FOR FOXNEWS.COM'...
Q. WILL YOU SHUT DOWN ANY OF YOUR NEWSPAPERS?'
A. 'ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE... BUT NO PLANS FOR IT'
FOXNEWS PROFIT 50% HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR...
VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW JAMES CAMERON FILM...
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drudge; ecommerce; fox; foxnews; fpx; murcoch; murdoch; newscorp; rupert
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To: SoDak; All
If I were in a position to charge people for access to my page I would. Viva la Capitalism.
We're already paying to go there....through ADS!
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:12:54 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: discostu
Compare to CNN and many others, their website is horribly designed. They should fix it up before even THINKING about charging people money.
Adios Foxnews, if you follow through with this idea.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:14:21 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: markedmannerf
All major web sites generate profit (or at least revenue) by selling advertising. If fox planning to significantly REDUCE this revenue?
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:14:47 PM PDT
by
Leo Farnsworth
(I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
To: listenhillary
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:14:49 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: Red in Blue PA
If the market will bear an access charge, in addition to ads, he’ll make money. If it doesn’t, he won’t, and it will be short-lived. I applaud the shameless pursuit of cash.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:15:22 PM PDT
by
SoDak
(Molon Labe)
To: jennyjenny
"That site is awful anyway. It’s not worth the hassle even when it’s free." Worth repeating. That site is awful. It looks like it was created in a adult-education HTML class. It's dreadful.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:16:24 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: markedmannerf
I think his plan is to use micropayments. An individual article might cost a penny. It will be interesting to see how it works.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:16:29 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: discostu
To: markedmannerf
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:17:58 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: listenhillary
Thats something we agree on. If I have to put up with the stupid ads, I sure ain’t paying for the privilege of dancing monkeys and netflix ads rolling across my page.
parsy.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:18:57 PM PDT
by
parsifal
("All great men come out of the middle classes" (Ralph Waldo Emerson))
To: markedmannerf; All
Until all news sites start charging, this just won’t work.
Too many abilities for people to watch the free sites.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:19:02 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
To: Red in Blue PA
I live in S. America and listen to FOX News Talk most of the time. It is my only access to conservative English language talk radio. (I never listen to Colmes) I agree that the website totally sucks!
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:19:28 PM PDT
by
WellyP
To: markedmannerf
they have websites, didn’t know that
To: markedmannerf
This is what ads are for. If you can attract a lot of traffic to your site, you can charge a lot for ads. This will all but kill foxnews.com which sucks anyway.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:20:29 PM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
To: markedmannerf
lol...we’ll see how that works out.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:22:01 PM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
To: SoDak
I applaud the shameless pursuit of cash.
Well good for you.
Doing this in a terrible economy when people are hurting and they are already making money from ads runs me the wrong way....and I probably am not the only one.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:22:15 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: markedmannerf
Considering the front page of FoxNews.com, and that they seem to be mostly concerned with keeping up on the sexual activities of young starlets and other Hollywood bimbos, I won’t consider this a big loss.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:22:30 PM PDT
by
SaveTheChief
(Obama lied, America died.)
To: markedmannerf
To: markedmannerf
The local paper started charging, and lost a lot of readers. I don’t mind paying for a few sites, but when all of them start charging, that could run into big bucks, and a lot of good forums would have to close. Maybe that’s part of the reason?
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:23:34 PM PDT
by
Jaidyn
To: markedmannerf
FOXNEWS.com blows. It’s a bunch of recycled AP wire stories. Good luck there, Rup.
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posted on
08/05/2009 3:25:30 PM PDT
by
nhwingut
(The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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