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Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US

Posted by timothy on from the adding-dot-com-works-for-me dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that Rupert Murdoch plans to launch a digital newspaper in the US geared specifically to younger readers and to digital outlets such as the iPad and mobile phones. The paper, as yet unnamed, will pool the huge editorial muscle of Murdoch's combined holdings within News Corporation, which include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the financial wire service Dow Jones, as well as his newspapers in the UK and Australia. Earlier this month, Murdoch said of the iPad: 'It's a real game-changer in the presentation of news,' adding 'We'll have young people reading newspapers.'"

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  1. Game changer by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rupert Murdoch: Dragging us into the 20th century.

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    1. Re:Game changer by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Hi, I'm Wally, the Murdoch Digital News Pay-wall Wallaby. According to other news sources - ones that you shouldn't waste your time reading - I'm an endangered species. So please give Master Rupert some of your money because I don't want to be Wally the extinct wallaby."

    2. Re:Game changer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Because 99% of the people who are skewering FOX News, when I ask them...

      Wow. How many people have you asked? Would you describe yourself as "obsessive" on this issue?

    3. Re:Game changer by Nutria · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am afraid that ... I actually get dummer.

      Looks like you actually are getting dumber!

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  2. Geez... by Mikkeles · · Score: 1, Funny

    I didn't know Murdoch could spell digital!

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    1. Re:Geez... by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 3, Funny

      He actually bought the word "digital"! It seems you've used it without permission...lawyers with lasers on their heads are on their way, please do not resist.

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  3. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    now the teabaggers can get their hate news and misinformation in print format when they are out and about

    Does Fox News, BTW, ever cover the fact that Murdoch is married to a former member of the Chinese Communist Party?

  4. Everyone who thinks this will work... by mooingyak · · Score: 5, Funny

    raise your hand. What, no one can hear me? IF YOU THINK THIS WILL WORK, RAISE YOUR HAND! Is this thing on?

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  5. the gamechanger by AffidavitDonda · · Score: 3, Funny

    Murdoch said of the iPad: 'It's a real game-changer in the presentation of news,'

    Hmm, sure, yes, the thing has something like a screen. Actually it is a screen. That would allow us to add those new thingies the PR guys talked about all the time. I think they call it "animations". And we could change those news during the day, not like this old printed stuff, with only one print a day. Sure, people would have to pay for it a little bit more, since they get more news. But those kids a surely used to pay for services they get from the internet...

  6. Re:What's left unsaid by ScottForbes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Granted, professional journalism does cost money, but what does this have to do with Rupert Murdoch?

  7. Younger readers? by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose "younger readers" can go on the list with "military intelligence", "plastic silverware" and "Microsoft Works".

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