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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

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To: SaveTheChief
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. Ive noticed this as well. Good to see they focus on the important news.
41 posted on 08/05/2009 3:26:22 PM PDT by markedmannerf
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To: markedmannerf
FoxNews websites are atrocious.

FoxNews likes graphics.

They spatter them all over the TV screen. I recently got HD cable. The FoxNews HD channel has graphics top, bottom, left and right. FoxNews actually looks better on the old SD TV. FoxBusiness HD is even worse with graphics all over it.

They spatter graphics all over their web pages. Even on highspeed cable, it takes forever for the FoxNews/FoxNation websites to load.

I can't get videos from FoxNews to load most of the time.

Charge for it?

42 posted on 08/05/2009 3:27:36 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: SoDak

“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.”

And apparently the shameless pursuit of lawsuits. Because you can bet the farm that there will be plenty of those by him when bloogers/writers quote “his” news stories.


43 posted on 08/05/2009 3:31:52 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Dallas59

I won’t be reading it either.


44 posted on 08/05/2009 3:34:38 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Future Snake Eater

It will likely severely shrink their readership therefore reducing the rates they can charge for advertising. It is an experiment but not a new one. Such tests have ended negatively before. Why does Murdoch think the same experiment will end differently this time?


45 posted on 08/05/2009 3:57:51 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: markedmannerf

So, Murdoch wants people to pay to read about the latest Hollywood celebrity scandal or dead white girl investigation?

Good luck with that Rupert, I don’t listen to your cable network anymore because the content is so crappy.


46 posted on 08/05/2009 4:00:40 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Our troops DESERVE BETTER than Barack Hussein Obama!!)
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To: WellyP

“It is my only access to conservative English language talk radio”

many radio stations are webcast live and/or later rebroadcasts of almost any conservative talker you could wish for


47 posted on 08/05/2009 4:12:29 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: markedmannerf

Screw you Murdoch, FoxNews.Com hasn’t GOT anything worth charging for!


48 posted on 08/05/2009 4:13:03 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hey Comrade 0bama? No documentation = No eligibility, ok? Now GTF out of OUR White House!!!)
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To: markedmannerf

No big deal. I never go to the Fox News website anyway, and after their coverage of this last election, I rarely watch Fox News on cable anymore.


49 posted on 08/05/2009 4:13:23 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: markedmannerf

lol, lol, yep that’s gonna work, lol


50 posted on 08/05/2009 4:13:31 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: markedmannerf

I don’t read FoxNews.com very much because I hate the layout. So it will be no big loss to me. I won’t pay for it.


51 posted on 08/05/2009 4:14:37 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: markedmannerf

This stupid tactic won’t last long.


52 posted on 08/05/2009 4:17:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: markedmannerf

AMF!


53 posted on 08/05/2009 4:19:50 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: markedmannerf

Very very stupid move.


54 posted on 08/05/2009 4:21:23 PM PDT by HonestConservative (http://web.me.com/pac8185/Site_2/Podcast/Podcast.html)
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To: Tatze

I agree, they have a terrible website.


55 posted on 08/05/2009 4:32:15 PM PDT by 38special (I mean come on.)
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To: markedmannerf

Yep that will work...snork! LOL


56 posted on 08/05/2009 4:33:49 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: mkjessup

Wrong economy Rupert......get a clue.


57 posted on 08/05/2009 4:37:39 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: jennyjenny

>> That site is awful anyway. It’s not worth the hassle even when it’s free.

How can you say that!!?! I don’t think I could do without Foxnews.com for even ONE day!

My favorite feature is the 60% space they devote to stories of general interest — of course, I’m speaking of Skanky Celebrity Gossip! Where ELSE would I find the exact number of scabs that Lindsey Lohan picked off of her methamphetimine-ravaged limbs??? I mean, like HOW could you POSSIBLY show up at a COCKTAIL PARTY or RAVE and NOT KNOW THAT???

My next most favoritest feature is the ads! Heck, I don’t even mind waiting those few extra minutes while they load!


58 posted on 08/05/2009 4:47:18 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: markedmannerf

Murdoch is a legend in his own mind. People will not pay for access to his sites, especially when others continue to provide it for free. Any idiot can read several sources and draw his/her conclusions. Fox News is not the end all.


59 posted on 08/05/2009 4:53:31 PM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: markedmannerf

I trust this is what’s called a trial balloon. Because if he actually does it, his hit-meter is gonna flatline overnight, and his advertisers will have his head on a pike. Sadly, although it’s my browser’s home page, FoxNews.com is kinda useless nowadays— half of it is celebrity crapola, anyway. Gossip about people I couldn’t care less about and often actively detest.

It’s entirely possible that Rupert doesn’t quite get this intertubes thing. If he starts charging me actual cash money, I’ll find some other place to browse. It’ll take maybe two heartbeats, with no looking back. And my name is Legion.


60 posted on 08/05/2009 4:55:05 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (I love my country, but I fear it, for it does not love me.)
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