Freepers in trouble - Right Wing Media wants their money (DER SPIEGEL)

Call Me Wesley

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:25 PM
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Freepers in trouble - Right Wing Media wants their money (DER SPIEGEL)

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The Days of the Internet Free Lunch Are Numbered

By Isabel H�lsen (DER SPIEGEL)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch: "Quality journalism isn't cheap." (OP's add here: :rofl: )

Media billionaire Rupert Murdoch wants to start charging online readers of his newspapers a fee. His decision has launched a fierce debate over the future of the culture of free content on the Internet. It has also posed a difficult question for publishers: How much are we worth to readers?

Rupert Murdoch has no use for computers. The 78-year-old Australian-American media billionaire doesn't like e-mail, he avoids the Internet and he even has trouble using his mobile phone. He doesn't exactly fit the picture of an online messiah.

But in recent weeks, Murdoch startled the publishing world when he uttered a few sentences that were as simple as they were revolutionary, such as: "Quality journalism isn't cheap." That led to his decision to start charging for online use of his many newspapers around the globe in the coming months. If Murdoch has his way, the days of free culture on the Internet will be numbered.

It didn't take much time after the remarks by Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation and owner of hundreds of newspapers and television stations, for the response to start pouring in: publishers the world over agreed. If anyone needed proof that Murdoch is still the mogul of media moguls, this was it.

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lpbk2713

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:27 PM
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1. Soak em good Rupe.

Good luck in getting money out of rethuglicants.

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qanda

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:28 PM
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2. If newspapers think we're goin to pay for their garbage, they have another thought coming

If they need more money, they best increase their advertising and continue to allow free access to the information or they will risk losing their readership.

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Warpy

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:32 PM
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4. It's entirely possible for papers to block out their areas

to online readers. Anyone signing on with a local IP address could be refused access to the content.

It's not an easy process but it can be done. Local advertising is already being targeted through Google ads. It doesn't take a terribly large leap of imagination to consider using the process to block content the same way.

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SpiralHawk

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:31 PM
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3. "Bring it on. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 12:33 PM by SpiralHawk

"I got boodles O' bucks in my Swiss Bank accounts, so who gives a flying felafel (other than Bill O'Reilly) about some chump change here and there. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

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Call Me Wesley

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:35 PM
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5. Hopefully his account is on the UBS list. ;)

So he'll end up without reading the Financial Times. But I think he's as IT savvy as Murdoch himself.

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MineralMan

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:35 PM
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6. Quality journalism? What does Murdoch know about that?

C'est pour rire!

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Call Me Wesley

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Fri Aug-21-09 12:36 PM
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7. That's why I added the :rofl: smilie.

:hi:

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BolivarianHero

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Fri Aug-21-09 01:34 PM
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8. "Quality Journalism"...

The only properties Fox owns that offer anything worthwhile in regards to political and social commentary are there Sunday evening animated programs.

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