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The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits
DCFC writes "News International, owners of The Times and The Sunday Times announced today that from June readers will be required to pay £1 per day or £2 per week to access content. Rupert Murdoch is delivering on his threat to make readers pay, and is trying out this experiment with the most important titles in his portfolio. No one knows if this will work — there is no consensus on whether it is a good or bad thing for the industry, but be very clear that if it succeeds every one of his competitors will follow. Murdoch has the luxury of a deep and wide business, so he can push this harder than any company that has to rely upon one or two titles for revenue."
The Hipster Papers will survive by funding from Soros and Buffett, two men whose opinions on politics will start to mean something to me the moment they qualify 100% of their income as wages.
you just make this up stuff up as you go don't you
Yeah, he should have said "Ultra-fucking-wacko conservative editorial board."
Wikinews, that is news piracy.
If your magical 'market' had correctly determined the price of derivatives, they would not have sold so well in the first place. You fail.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
The reaction of the true market fundementalist; all dissent from the glory of the Invisible Hand is pure stalinism. You guys are truly pathetic.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?