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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: Nervous Tick

I bet he just found out about Firefox and Adblock Plus.


61 posted on 08/05/2009 4:55:58 PM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: markedmannerf

The Fox News website is redundant.

If I want celebrity news, I go to TMZ.


62 posted on 08/05/2009 4:56:51 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: 1000 silverlings

That’s right. The economic climate being what it is few will pony up the cash. Oh well.


63 posted on 08/05/2009 4:57:04 PM PDT by octobersky
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To: TommyDale

>> I bet he just found out about Firefox and Adblock Plus.

Oh, I bet ol’ Rupert has known for quite awhile, to the tenth of a percent, how many visitors block his ads.

I used to consider Murdoch, liberal weenie that he is, an astute businessman.

Of course, I used to think Warren Buffett was pretty financially savvy, too. :-)


64 posted on 08/05/2009 4:59:04 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: octobersky

lol, but nobody tell him


65 posted on 08/05/2009 5:01:32 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: markedmannerf

Hey FOX, nobody cares, your site sucks!


66 posted on 08/05/2009 5:06:09 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: markedmannerf

I would never pay for that.. sorry.. plenty of free news sites out there. I DO love my fox news on TV but they can keep the website if they are going to charge me.

Then again it didn’t work too well for the NYT, because bugmenot.com had a working password whenever you needed one.

Sorry Fox.. but I wont pay for online news. Find someone else to make money off of.


67 posted on 08/05/2009 5:07:13 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Vaquero

It will now be a premium channel.


68 posted on 08/05/2009 5:09:40 PM PDT by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: EBH

I probably already have any plan they need.


69 posted on 08/05/2009 5:21:14 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: rom

me neither


70 posted on 08/05/2009 5:22:19 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Have you girded your loins today??????)
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To: markedmannerf
This is stupid in a ressession. No problem..just go directly to Glenn Beck dot com. The election made me see the light about Fox. Big government pushers.
71 posted on 08/05/2009 5:26:16 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: mass55th

I don’t recall the last time I landed on fox news dot whatever.


72 posted on 08/05/2009 5:39:08 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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To: markedmannerf

Well, ya know...this will only make twitter and blogger news sites even MORE important.


73 posted on 08/05/2009 6:49:04 PM PDT by PokeyJoe (I miss my Audi A6 Avant)
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To: markedmannerf

I’m all for capitalism with all the pros and cons involved. There are those that can afford to obtain the news that way, and those that cannot. Looks like I will not be visiting his news sites, and depend on this site providing me with the truth as usual.


74 posted on 08/05/2009 6:59:10 PM PDT by indyhome
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To: markedmannerf

Not paying.


75 posted on 08/05/2009 7:40:34 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: markedmannerf

I tried it for about 5 minutes. I thought some 1st year Computer student developed it. Deleted fro favs and haven’t been back since. OH well.


76 posted on 08/05/2009 7:54:04 PM PDT by Marty62
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To: markedmannerf

And we should care why???


77 posted on 08/05/2009 8:21:25 PM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: markedmannerf

See ya.


78 posted on 08/05/2009 9:01:16 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

That’s what did me in with Foxnews.com as well; all of the sudden it started looking like one of those lousy, celebrity story-ridden rags they abuse the UK with.


79 posted on 08/05/2009 9:11:02 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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Murdoch's plan is ill-conceived.

It will fail BIG TIME; eventually all print rags will fall by the wayside.

It will pave the way for honest & true hardworking "reporters" to post online, only. And there is always FREEpervilled for all the news. Bye Rupert.

80 posted on 08/05/2009 10:34:29 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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