Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad

Hugh Pickens writes "The Register reports that News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, reiterated his disgust at how search engines handle news and called on old media to rethink how their stories are distributed on the web. 'It's produced a river of gold, but those words are being taken mostly from the newspapers,' said Rupert. 'I think they ought to stop it, that the newspapers ought to stand up and let them do their own reporting.' Murdoch added that the iPad was a 'wonderful tool' for listening to music, watching videos and reading newspapers. 'It may well be the saving of the newspaper industry,' by making it cheaper to distribute content to a broader audience, Murdoch said. 'I'm old, I like the tactile experience of the newspaper,' Murdoch said. '(But) if you have less newspapers and more of these, that's OK. It doesn't destroy the traditional newspaper, it just comes in a different form.'"

Comments

Re:Logically...

[Anonymous Coward]

The strict control that Apple keeps over the app store is something that our good friend Rupert would love to see people get used to, since it falls right in line with his paywall schemes.

wait what? the only similarity is that you have to pay... Is it that bad to pay the fair price of items? Is it bad for any website to have a paywall if they have a fair price? Is it wrong for apple and the developers in the app store to charge for their apps? I understand several of the problems with the apple store, but they have nothing in common with the over priced paywalls that some websites are trying to charge other than charging for money for their content. So it's pretty much apples and oranges, other than they are both fruit.
Posting anonymously because the mentality in slashdot right now is to hate apple and to hate paywalls (oh and lets use no-script to remove ads from the websites that have no paywall!)... because paying is baaaaad..

Re:Suggestion for Rupert

[Myria]

Rupert's mantra should probably be listen to what I say, (pay no attention to what I do)

Isn't that the mantra of "the Right" in general?

Re:Endorsement

[mdwh2]

I tried unticking the ads, but it doesn't stop the daily Apple product placements... "Rupert Murdoch loves the Ipad" - really, how is this any more an actual news story than "Random famous person loves Pepsi"?

I know Slashdot is now running daily Ipad stories, but it seems like they've run out of news if we now have a story for every person who uses one. Why not a daily story for every famous person who runs Windows, or has a Nokia? In fact, with those two market leaders you could get away with hourly stories.