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Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites"

Posted by timothy on from the subverting-the-dominant-paradigm dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "In what appears to be a carefully planned suicide, Rupert Murdoch announced that his media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. 'The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution, but it has not made content free. Accordingly we intend to charge for all our news websites,' Murdoch said."

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  1. Bye, bye. by scotts13 · · Score: 4, Informative

    N/T

    1. Re:Bye, bye. by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Informative

      The day Fox start reporting actual NEWS is the day Satan goes to work in a snowplow.

      In Dante's Inferno Satan is trapped in a frozen lake, surrounded by traitors of all description.

    2. Re:Bye, bye. by plaxion · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hope I'm not giving away the ending of the first part for anyone, but... the lake you mention is frozen by the beating of Satan's wings. Other parts of the inferno are plenty hot depending upon the punishment, as in the case of the sodomites wandering on the burning sand with flames falling on them like rain.

      Oh, and since I'm on a roll, Snape kills Dumbledor ;)

    3. Re:Bye, bye. by geekoid · · Score: 5, Informative

      You should check out public broadcasting.

      PBS does some great news pieces.

      Here in Oregon, OPB is excellent.

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  2. Re:What a nice gift to progressives by bl968 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It proves nothing. You can call a rose,a rose; and a pig, a pig; without being one your self. The history of Fox news is documented even in court cases...

    In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States...During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre's claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, "It's vindication for WTVT, and we're very pleased... It's the case we've been making for two years. She never had a legal claim."

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  3. Shades of grey or colors? by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    Silly Americans with their "right wing" vs "left wing" so-called political opinions...

    Nothing in real life is black or white, it's always shades of grey.

    Assume there is a median political position. To the left and right of this are various stances. "Left" politics include civil libertarianism, entitlements for minorities and the working class, and regulation of business; "right" politics generally imply the opposite. Between far left and far right, there are still "shades of grey" as you call them: left, center left, center right, and right.

    It's possible to be left on some issues and right on others. For instance, the Libertarian Party is left on civil libertarianism but right on entitlements and business regulation. But U.S. political parties whose platforms mix "left" and "right" planks virtually never win more than 2% of the popular vote. Perhaps a better analogy isn't "shades of grey" as much as color vs. grayscale.

  4. Re:Fox News by Dragonslicer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, Fox News has a pretty large viewership (I would guess that CNN, Fox, and MSNBC are approximately evenly split, but I don't watch any of them so I don't care enough to dig up any numbers), and yes, your assessment is fairly accurate. Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly are probably the most well-known Fox News personalities, and they're all extreme ideologues (Beck also has the bonus feature of being completely fucking nuts). If you want a nice Best Of Fox News review, I recommend watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report; while they'll still make fun of CNN (which seems to have become just a reading of Twitter messages from viewers) and MSNBC (which is almost as ideological as Fox News, but they generally manage to hide the crazy better), Fox News provides by far the most entertaining clips.