News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites

suraj.sun writes "Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an 'epochal' debate over whether to charge. 'That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,' he said."

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Great

[shma]

The less people that read their "news", the better.

Can't wait to see...

[Anonymous Coward]

..him getting the great unwashed hordes to pay for The Sun webshite.

Especially since it doesn't have the one advantage of the print version, which is that you can wipe your backside with that Murdoch POS rag.

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Re:the sad thing is

[Archangel Michael]

Another fine example of the tolerant left. Just admit it, you only tolerate those you agree with, and are no different than (R) you hate so much for their intolerance.

Re:WSJ

[DerekLyons]

The thing with the Wall Street Journal is that most of the subscriptions are directly paid by companies or else put on the subscribers expense account.

[citation needed]