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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!
21 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!)
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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.


22 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!)
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To: markedmannerf
All major web sites generate profit (or at least revenue) by selling advertising. If fox planning to significantly REDUCE this revenue?
23 posted on 08/05/2009 3:14:47 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: listenhillary

I like this site

http://conservativeamericannews.com/


24 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)
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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.


25 posted on 08/05/2009 3:15:22 PM PDT by SoDak (Molon Labe)
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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.

26 posted on 08/05/2009 3:16:24 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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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.


27 posted on 08/05/2009 3:16:29 PM PDT by fso301
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To: discostu

Amen to that.


28 posted on 08/05/2009 3:16:38 PM PDT by RanGreHad
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To: markedmannerf

29 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.")
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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.


30 posted on 08/05/2009 3:18:57 PM PDT by parsifal ("All great men come out of the middle classes" (Ralph Waldo Emerson))
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To: markedmannerf; All

Until all news sites start charging, this just won’t work.

Too many abilities for people to watch the free sites.


31 posted on 08/05/2009 3:19:02 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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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!
32 posted on 08/05/2009 3:19:28 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: markedmannerf

they have websites, didn’t know that


33 posted on 08/05/2009 3:19:50 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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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.


34 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)
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To: markedmannerf

lol...we’ll see how that works out.


35 posted on 08/05/2009 3:22:01 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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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.
36 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!)
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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.


37 posted on 08/05/2009 3:22:30 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (Obama lied, America died.)
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To: markedmannerf

Real smart /s


38 posted on 08/05/2009 3:23:13 PM PDT by NotSoModerate
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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?


39 posted on 08/05/2009 3:23:34 PM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: markedmannerf

FOXNEWS.com blows. It’s a bunch of recycled AP wire stories. Good luck there, Rup.


40 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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