Murdoch: Web sites to charge for content

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Source: CNN

Speaking on a conference call as News Corporation announced a 47 percent slide in quarterly profits to $755 million, Murdoch said the current free access business model favored by most content providers was flawed.

"We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning," the News Corp. Chairman and CEO said.

"We have been at the forefront of that debate and you can confidently presume that we are leading the way in finding a model that maximises revenues in return for our shareholders... The current days of the Internet will soon be over."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/05/07/murdoch.web.content/index.html

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So the right wingers may have to pay to get their talking points from FOX "News" and the Murdoch Street Journal?

[Hugin]

1. "The current days of the Internet will soon be over."

Was that by any chance followed by a bale of evil laughter?

I'm going to file this one with...

"There will never be a world wide need for more than 4 computers." - IBM
"64K of RAM is more than enough" - Bill Gates

[Alcibiades]

3. So much stoopidity

Be he does not know what hubris is, though he's embodying it.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Thomas Watson is supposed to have said '5' computers. It's doubtful he ever said it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote

And some people believe that may well come true.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/computing.supercomputers

Now, thanks to the explosion in computing power and network bandwidth, the barriers to building a universal computer are falling. Very bright people can talk seriously about a world where there are only five computers - or even just a single one - that all of us share. It's not a world that Thomas J Watson would recognise, even if it represents the future he accidentally foretold.

[Hugin]

7. How come corrections come after the editing period has expired?

Answer me that...

Anyway, I didn't come by my misconception via the Watson Controversy. My delusion is via an ad/article, I personally found in an old technology magazine discussing Computers. It states unequivocally that due to the manufacturing and materials costs in addition to the complexity of Computers at the time the article was written, (1955) they only foresaw four (4) of the machines being built before the end of the Millennium. (That would be around now... Give or take the Bush years.)

So, my error wasn't really a misquote of Watson... It was a mis-attribution of who said it.

(This reminds me... I need to scan it in so I can post it in the Internetless future.)

Edit: Darn it... I had to go back to four (4).

[Doctor_J]

2. Uh-oh. All the Fox "News" addicts are going to have to fork over

including DUers.

[stlsaxman]

5. News Corporation (or Corporation News, rather) in it's death throws? Let us pray!

God, it sounds like they'll be facing massive lay-offs!

Bye Glen!

Bye Bill-o!

Bye Laura!

Bye Britt!

Bye Lil Billy Kristol!

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11. Arrr Matey!

[Doremus]

6. Ha! The earth will spin off its axis before the pukes pay for content.

Apparently Murdoch doesn't know his (cheap bastard) base very well. :rofl:


ETA: Unless Rupert is going to start peddling porn, heh.

[stlsaxman]

13. START peddling porn?!?!? that's all they do now!

:rofl:

[Doremus]

15. That's (semi) true, but the mouth breathers aren't about to pay for it

Unless it's of the hard core variety.

Maybe Murdoch is ditching rightwing politics for something more lucrative. lol

[LeftHander]

8. FOX news and FOX networks make up most of the internet....

Whatever will we all do....!!!!

[Tutankhamun]

9. Hopefully Murdoch will die soon.

It's wrong to wish death on people, except for people like Dick Cheney and Rupert Murdoch.

OTOH I want Boosh to live to be 130 so he can see just how badly he's screwed up the world. I also like the idea of Boosh waiting and waiting and waiting for Jesus to return.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. I wonder what Tim Berners Lee thinks of all this. And Murdoch.

[belpejic]

12. Hahahaha

Good luck Rupert! The genie is out of the bottle, and if you try to put it back in you'll fold. Nobody really cares enough about your crappy content to pay for it (save perhaps for News Corp. Street Journal reporting, not editorials).

Online is about advertising. Advertising sucks when other businesses suck, and vice versa.

[marions ghost]

14. "a model that will maximize revenues for our shareholders...."

...while giving as little as possible to the consumer.

The Rethuglican way. All Murdoch has been a model for is unrestrained corporate greed and media manipulation. Can't maximize revenues without a desirable product. Business 101. So keep your "News" on your Limited Access websites, Rupert. Good place to disappear it. We can CERTAINLY do without.

Oh yeah Rupert, switch to plan B--raising sheep on your station out beyond the Black Stump. Maybe a few Alpacas too. Get a life, mate.

[sarcasmo]

16. Can the Pirate get any more Greedy?

[sabrina 1]

17. Pay for propaganda?

He can't give it away free and he thinks people will pay for it? :rofl:

He's been crying over this for years. I remember around 2004, he admitted that people were not buying his faux 'news' publications anymore so his ad revenues were down. He said then, that he would have to get 'into' the Internet. A terrifying thought considering what he and the Moonie empire, and the rest of his treasonous ilk (and they're not even US citizens, are they?) have done to the media in this country.

They should be investigated for their role in disseminating or 'catapulting' the propaganda that helped drag this country down to where it is today. You could almost believe that was their goal.

Goebbels would be proud and maybe a bit jealous of how effective they were. They certainly had to have studied his methods:

Goebbels at Nuremberg 1934

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb59.htm

Political propaganda in principle is active and revolutionary. It is aimed at the broad masses. It speaks the language of the people because it wants to be understood by the people. Its task is the highest creative art of putting sometimes complicated events and facts in a way simple enough to be understood by the man on the street. Its foundation is that there is nothing the people cannot understand, but rather things must be put in a way that they can understand.

Yeah, move over Goebbels, Rupert and his band of propagandists did keep it pretty simple for the masses ~

Let him force his fringe followers to pay for his propaganda if he can, so long as he keeps his hands off the rest of the internet.