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Google Will Star In New Dow Jones News Model
An anonymous reader writes "Dow Jones is getting set to launch a new aggregator, akin to Google News, which will charge Web users for access to high-quality journalism. 'The Journal is one of the many newspapers you might buy in one place and with one payment [...] Watch for it,' said Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton. However, rather than posing a threat to Google News, Andrew Keen, author and entrepreneur, says the aggregator will use Google as a critical partner. The only people who should be worried about this new model, says Keen, 'are all those lucky consumers who, over the last 15 years, have been getting their news for free.'"
Because news collection just doesn't work like this at all.
This book is well worth a read on how news is collected, and becomes news. It's quite depressing reading.
Deducting it as a business expense is only free to a self-employed end user if said user is paying a 100% marginal tax rate. This is unlikely to be the case.
They said high quality. That completely eliminates Fox, and throws grave doubts on the other two.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
The WSJ does provide compelling, unique content. Maybe not for you, but for a lot of people. In the print world, they're the #2 newspaper. (Number 1 is USA Today, largely due to hotel deals)
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
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