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80% Won’t Pay For Online Content, The Other 20% Are Lying
8:40AM Ryan Tate | Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4000 people polled, 80 per cent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay. More »
Online
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening To Leave Google
4:15AM Ryan Tate | For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within “months”. The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that’s just its way of making search hugely profitable. More »
Online
Old People Talking About The Internet: Rupert Murdoch Edition
3:47AM Ryan Tate | Rupert Murdoch has revealed his secret plan for News Corp. to make money on the internet: Make News Corp. invisible, on the internet. Murdoch will leave The Google, rewrite copyright law, and teach you kids to stay off his lawn! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Inside Lachlan Murdoch’s $21 Million Mansion
3:53AM Brian Moylan | Rupert Murdoch’s oldest son Lachlan and wife Sarah have landed a mansion in the outskirts of Sydney. Here are the sort of digs being an heir to the News Corp. family fortune buys you. More »
People
Hollywood’s Recession Is Over, Declares Murdoch
5:35AM Richard Rushfield | Just like Murdoch to go and ruin everything for everyone. Just when the studios had a great excuse with this recession thing to slash salaries and fire everyone in sight, along comes Rupert singing “Happy Days are Here Again.” More »
Online
MySpace’s Future: Online Slum For Depression Refugees
6:18AM Ryan Tate | It’s hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science-fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More »
Print
Wall Street Journal Takes On Local News
6:12AM Hamilton Nolan | The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More »
Print
Rupert Murdoch Thinks You’re A Philistine
7:13AM Ryan Tate | Rupert Murdoch (!) will end “the Philistine phase of the digital age,” with paid content.
Online
MySpace Is For “Stalking”, Says Owner Of MySpace
3:27AM Ryan Tate | Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a “personal antipathy to the Internet”, biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $US580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage: More »
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