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Imagine clicking to view this blog, or any other online article and being told you had to pay. That’s what will happen when The Times and The Sunday Times begins charging users to view its online content.
Rupert Murdoch may be the most powerful media tycoon in the country, but his opinion towards the internet, as quoted in The Independent on Saturday (March 27th) is nothing short of outrageous.
That one man believes he can halt the trend of a global internet news marketplace in favour of preserving physical newspaper sales is absurd.
Michael Wolff, Murdoch’s biographer said, “He does not care about the online business, it’s about “buy my newspaper I will give you something extra [on the fact that Times and Sunday Times subscribers will have free online access]. If you don’t, I’m going to make the cost of online reading really quite onerous.” Rupert wants to be the guy that saved newspapers. He hates the internet.”
Isn’t that just insane? We are a news junky society. We consume news like we breathe air. I regularly read The Times Online and enjoy articles and comment by the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, Giles Coren and A A Gill.
Will I pay £1 a day or £2 a week to access this information in the future? I bloody doubt it.
I’d probably just buy the paper.
Steve McNeill
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