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Murdoch's UK Paywall a Miserable Failure
David Gerard writes "As part of his war against free, Rupert Murdoch put the Times and Sunday Times of London behind a paywall. Michael Wolff of Newser asks how that's working out for him. You can guess: miserable failure: 'Not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself — who have free access to the site — are not going beyond the registration page. It's an empty world.' Not that this wasn't entirely predictable." Update: 07/17 01:41 GMT by T : Frequent contributor Peter Wayner writes skeptically that the Newsday numbers should be looked at with a grain of salt: "I believe they were charging $30/month for the electronic edition and $25/month for the dead tree edition which also offered free access to the electronic edition. In essence, you had to pay an extra $5 to avoid getting your lawn littered with paper. The dead tree edition gets much better ad rates and so it is worth pushing. It's a mistake to see the raw numbers and assume that the paywall failed."
Yo dawg -- I heard you liked cable sports networks so I bundled a magazine with the web site so you can flip through the glossies and read the blags while you drive around and watch TV sports.
"2. Bush lied about WMDs"
True.
True, but it was also the best intelligence could offer for a whole host of reasons. It was more an intelligence failure than Bush spouting falsehoods.
"7. Bush is an idiot"
True
False - though unpopular. Bush is actually quite smart guy, though he doesn't necessarily come across as such. On the other hand, Obama comes across as such, but is really an idiot when it comes down to it.
"10. Bush stole the 2000 election (and even the 2004 election)"
true and true. Clarification: Republicans did. 2000 was shameful and a slap in the face to every American. 2004 was full of wide spread fraud. District not counted, people sent away, voting booths were closed or not st up in heavy democrat counties.
Agreed it was shameful. Both on the part of the Democrats and the Republicans. But Bush did not steal the election.
"11. Bush is spending us into a huge hole... wait, that one was true."
Yes it was. The whole republican party was spending, borrowing and deregulating. The republican party has very few actually conservatives anymore, and any party that punishes anyone behaving outside of the leader narrowly decided upon views should be abandoned by thinking persons.
And the Democrats haven't done any better. Obama has already spent more money then Bush did, albeit differently.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley (source: imdb.com)
That should be trololo ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA