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Started by Telarus, August 30, 2009, 08:48:47 AM

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August 30, 2009, 08:48:47 AM
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/1750259/James-Murdoch-Criticizes-BBC-For-Providing-Free-News?art_pos=7

QuotePosted by timothy  on Saturday August 29, @02:30PM
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Hugh Pickens writes "News Corporation's James Murdoch says that a 'dominant' BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it 'incredibly difficult' for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news. 'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch. 'The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision.' In common with the public broadcasting organizations of many other European countries, the BBC is funded by a television license fee charged to all households owning a television capable of receiving broadcasts. Murdoch's News Corporation, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers and pay TV provider BSkyB in the UK and the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News TV in the US." Note that James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch.
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August 30, 2009, 12:45:38 PM
Naturally, the channel of information that flows from 10 Downing Street to the Home Office directly to the the editor of the Sun newspaper (owner: Rupert Murdoch) is not so much a threat to journalism, because, um....OH HEY LOOK THE BBC IS RUN BY COMMIES AND MUSLIMS!

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August 30, 2009, 03:13:56 PM
I can't take a mutlibillionare owner of many media conglomerates seriously when he wines about this sort of thing.  :lulz:
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August 30, 2009, 03:38:52 PM
Quote from: Kai on August 30, 2009, 03:13:56 PM
I can't take a mutlibillionare owner of many media conglomerates seriously when he wines about this sort of thing.  :lulz:
Wait - that quote looks like new content! Mmm - Product! How can I put a $ on it?

Thing is, if these owners of media empires simply started charging more for web-advertising rates, and balancing out the enormous discrepancy with advertising rates for old-media, then they might actually start having a viable business model. If I run a news site, can I successfully charge more for web-ads than the New York Times does? Not likely.

That would, of course, drive the destruction of paper-news and tv networks even faster - and we couldn't have that now could we? The lack of new high-quality content being produced for the web is an issue of funding.

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August 30, 2009, 07:18:09 PM
the entire idea of for pay online news is broken, because online readers don't just look at one paper.

If all I ever read online was NYT, I'd be happy to pay for it (in fact, when I did read the NYT regularly I had a dead tree subscription), but I don't, I read it maybe once a month, getting random articles here and there, paying a monthly fee to look at 2 or 3 articles doesn't make sense.

Of course, I think thats what this is really about, they hate the disassociation of information from outlet, they want people to have to only use one or two of their outlets, so that they get all the ad revenue.
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August 30, 2009, 09:11:09 PM
lol, we got the same whining in the Netherlands a while ago as well. some even suggested an "internet tax" to pay for free news :lol:

the reaction of the owner of nu.nl (a big successfull free news site) was cool. he said he offered his site+formula to PCM (big belgian/dutch media corp, owns most of the major newspapers) for sale years ago, but they refused, and now they are the suck and fail.
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August 31, 2009, 12:50:27 AM
The BBC isn't free anyways since it is funded by the tv tax. Well actually it's free for me so suck it BritSpags.  :p

Seems a tad ironic that a Captain of Industry suddenly doesn't like the Invisible Hand of the Market.
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August 31, 2009, 01:06:00 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on August 31, 2009, 12:50:27 AM
The BBC isn't free anyways since it is funded by the tv tax. Well actually it's free for me so suck it BritSpags.  :p

Seems a tad ironic that a Captain of Industry suddenly doesn't like the Invisible Hand of the Market.

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August 31, 2009, 01:48:34 AM
Quote from: Kai on August 31, 2009, 01:06:00 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on August 31, 2009, 12:50:27 AM
The BBC isn't free anyways since it is funded by the tv tax. Well actually it's free for me so suck it BritSpags.  :p

Seems a tad ironic that a Captain of Industry suddenly doesn't like the Invisible Hand of the Market.

Hairless apes only like systems when the systems work in their favor.

and "Captains of Industry" don't like it when "the Invisible Hand of the Market" has that middle digit rammed up their ass . . .
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August 31, 2009, 02:02:50 AM
Ayn rand is rolling in her grave...

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August 31, 2009, 03:37:41 AM
You Godless fuckers will pay for your hatred towards Mr Murdoch.  He is a fine man, and a model for unbiased journalism.  Perhaps he would be interested in the support of The First Church of the Wrath of Baby Jesus.  For a suitable donation, of course.
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