Comments on: Rupert’s pay-up model for newspapers on the back-burner http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Glenn Brandham http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/#comment-44570 Glenn Brandham Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:12:26 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/#comment-44570 Well said, Tom. I viewed the performance of the cold blooded reptile yesterday, geniunely interested in what he had to say, just so I could tip off Jon Stewarts Daily Show and keep up with the jokes. Being a citizen of a Queensland, I can still recall the good old days when we actually had media diversity and competition with THREE local newspapers to choose from. Now we just have one, his, and I don't buy it. Bring it on, Rupert, I can't wait to ignore you some more. Oh, and good luck getting anyone to pay for the stable of loons and sycophants Fox News fronts up with on a daily basis. Just watch one week of the Daily Show and you'll agree, Ruperts money has been largely wasted by him and him alone. Well said, Tom. I viewed the performance of the cold blooded reptile yesterday, geniunely interested in what he had to say, just so I could tip off Jon Stewarts Daily Show and keep up with the jokes. Being a citizen of a Queensland, I can still recall the good old days when we actually had media diversity and competition with THREE local newspapers to choose from. Now we just have one, his, and I don’t buy it. Bring it on, Rupert, I can’t wait to ignore you some more. Oh, and good luck getting anyone to pay for the stable of loons and sycophants Fox News fronts up with on a daily basis. Just watch one week of the Daily Show and you’ll agree, Ruperts money has been largely wasted by him and him alone.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/#comment-44459 Tom McLoughlin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:26:01 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/#comment-44459 Short of News Corp buying out or buying off Google to block google searches of their websites, News Corp are in a strangle hold by web 2.0 history taking it's course. And in one of many scenarios if Google hits a search wall at News Corp like it does for say yellow or white pages, or austlii legal database then News Corp will simply become a side road, or in Australian context a billabong, with slow flowing water, while the mainstream web users/audience flow down the main channel to the ocean. Fine by me. Bring on the paywall, search wall. News Corp have long, long, long been a moral and ethical side road low cheap gutter mob (with honourable exceptions proving the rule) and it's long past due they were similarly sidelined in relation to civil society commerce and discourse. Fox 'News' - say no more. Short of News Corp buying out or buying off Google to block google searches of their websites, News Corp are in a strangle hold by web 2.0 history taking it’s course.

And in one of many scenarios if Google hits a search wall at News Corp like it does for say yellow or white pages, or austlii legal database then News Corp will simply become a side road, or in Australian context a billabong, with slow flowing water, while the mainstream web users/audience flow down the main channel to the ocean.

Fine by me. Bring on the paywall, search wall. News Corp have long, long, long been a moral and ethical side road low cheap gutter mob (with honourable exceptions proving the rule) and it’s long past due they were similarly sidelined in relation to civil society commerce and discourse. Fox ‘News’ - say no more.

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