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Google Will Star In New Dow Jones News Model

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-will-find-a-way dept.

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.'"

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  1. Sounds friendly... by tnk1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, all you people getting value for free, you'd better watch out! You have to pay us now... for what you already get for free! Take that!

    This guy must have been top of his class in Business School. I will follow his career with much interest.

  2. Really... by Areyoukiddingme · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...which will charge Web users for access to high-quality journalism.

    So... they'll do quality fact checking back to prime sources, not Wikipedia?
    And... they'll report conflicts of interest not only among their subjects but with their corporate overlord?
    And... they'll report which moneyed interests stand to gain, every time?
    And... they'll never ever ever accept paid publicity or promotional materials and report them as news?
    And... they'll stop reporting what Britney Spears is doing?
    And... they'll never invent another word like Brangelina again?
    And... they'll carefully write political copy using neutral, non-loaded words and phrases, without bias?

    Color me skeptical...

    I would laugh, but it's too farkin' pathetic. "High-quality". Right...