Monday, August 16th, 2010
Albert Einstein once defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So, Rupert Murdoch is a nut-case, at least by Einstein’s definition.
Murdoch is planning to release a digital newspaper on tablet devices (such as the iPad) by the end of the year, this will be a paid/subscription type business model and it will be aimed towards the younger generation. For a fee, you will receive shortened down diluted news content with no analysis which can be found on thousands of blogs and news sites around the world for free. It sounds like a good deal, you should take it.
Of course, Murdoch has already attempted to get youths involved with news and it didn’t work out (even though it was free). Also, I hear the pay-walls he has put up around the Times and other news sites of his are doing very well.
I’m not saying that journalism isn’t worth paying for (it is), that subject is best left for another time, what I’m saying is that Murdoch doesn’t have a very firm grasp on the modern world (especially on technology); the old business techniques don’t always work these days.
Tags: Apple, iPad, Murdoch, News, Paywall, Rupert Murdoch, Tablet, Times
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Amongst Rupert “Still-Alive” Murdoch’s greedy, absent-minded and lunatic plans to charge people to view his poor quality biased drivel (aka ‘news’) on all of the websites he owns (The Sun, The Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox etc), he now also plans to block search indexing for his sites, to encourage people to pay for his news.
Needless to say, in the age of information, this is greedy, monopolistic, fuck-headed and probably wont work. He called Google a parasite and questioned the validity of ‘Fair Use’ (an ideology that keeps free websites such as Wikipedia going). He seems to want to defend news as intellectual property, but of course liberal media such as The Guardian won’t follow the trend.
I don’t need to point out the obvious, such as the irony in Rupert Murdoch calling Google a parasite.
Look on the bright side, now you wont have to avoid News Corp’s bile, Murdoch will have done that bit for you.
Now to leave you with some comments made on The Guardian article:
“Excluding yourself from the single largest source of web traffic? What could possibly go wrong with that plan?”
“So we are going to lose free access to the Sun, Fox News and The Times…well that is a tragedy for the ‘Fair and Balanced’ media.”
“It is a terrible idea. I hope he goes through with it.”
“We really need the top-level journalism that Murdoch provides. After all, they did such a great job speaking truth to power and questioning authority with the Iraq war.”
Tags: Fox, News, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch
Posted in Culture |