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    Image of NorthernLite NorthernLite
    11/05/09

    In reply to Hollywood's Recession Is Over, Declares Murdoch
    Murdoch wouldn't sing Happy Days - that was a song associated with Dems. #rupertmurdoch
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/05/09

    @NorthernLite: Yeah, he's more of a "Deng Dong the Witch is Dead" kind of guy. #rupertmurdoch
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    Image of DoctorNine's D9 Cat DoctorNine's D9 Cat
    08/17/09

    In reply to Don Imus This Close to Bringing His Crazy Old Racism to Fox
    He needs to lose the cowboy thing. He isn't a cowboy. I don't care if he secretly has wanted to be Johnny Cash since the '80s, if he doesn't work cattle in the heat of the southern sun, he doesn't need the hat and the boots.
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    Image of howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches) howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)
    08/17/09

    @DoctorNine's D9 Cat: Well, technically he does have a ranch in Northern New Mexico. Whether or not he does any sort of cattle running or brush clearing remains in question.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    What? You mean you have to pay to watch Glenn Beck rant and rave online? That's like charging people for the privilege of somebody farting in their general direction.
    Seriously, I didn't watch Fox Noise before. That stuff rots your brain. Why would I pay for the privilege of having my IQ lowered?
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    Image of JesseFenderburg JesseFenderburg
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    OR, if you want, you can read all of News Corp's shit for free RIGHT NOW. Go to www.wsj.com, pick a story that only gives access to subscribers, and GOOGLE THE EXACT HEADLINE. Guess what? They ALSO want their content indexed by Google, so if you enter a WSJ story via a search engine, YOU GO AROUND THE PAY WALL AND READ THE WHOLE STORY. Sorry about the shouting, I'm excitable.
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    Image of Sharksbreath Sharksbreath
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    This is going to be fun watching Rupert destroy his company.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    Rotsa Ruck Rupert.
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    Image of timeoutofmind timeoutofmind
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    i couldn't get past 'paying for Glenn Beck'.
    i'd pay extra NOT to be able to see him or hear him, ever. is that what he means ?
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    Image of PutnamChthonius PutnamChthonius
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    Wow. At a time when Americans are broke and out of work, what’s another way to break their spirit? Start charging for the dissemination of information. Way to go Rupert, you just flushed the crusade(s) of your Fox News hosts right down the toilet. “We’re behind you middle class workers, as long as you pay us.” How many times, in the history of the internet, has paying for an online service made it more successful and more popular?
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    08/06/09

    @PutnamChthonius: You assume, of course, that what News Corporation produces is information. RW propaganda is more like it.
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    Image of Fortyseven Fortyseven
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    "Banzai!"
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    Rupert, call me. You're going to want to raid the family trust funds at some point. I can help you dilute them. We can start at a 50/50 split and then I'll let you chisel me down to 20%. This means you'll have to adopt me, but don't worry, I love yachts and China, and Luxembourg!
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    Paying to read the Wall St. Journal online is like paying to toss Arthur Laffer's salad in a public bathroom.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    Mr. Murdoch, crazy and offensive and politically reactionary as he is, has been in the money-makin' business a whole lot longer than me, or, I venture to guess, anyone who reads this site. So scoff at the crazy old coot at your own risk. I think this is the first volley in a much broader battle.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    08/06/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Those who would forget history are doomed to repeat it etc. etc.
    This has been tried before. It has failed before. It will fail again, and nothing about Rupert Murdoch being Rupert Murdoch will change that.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    08/06/09

    @badasscat: By point of example: there's also the fact that besides his obvious media holdings, Newscorp is the parent company of SkyTV. In that capacity, SkyTV controls a significant portion of the entire media spectrum globally, not just on the web. If you've traveled abroad in Europe and Asia in the last 10-15 years you'd see just how pervasive Sky (and Newscorp by extension) is as a media company. The ability to leverage that amount of market share to support this web initiative is kind of hard to estimate. I'm just saying, you underestimate Murdoch's reach at your own risk.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    08/06/09

    @badasscat: It failed before because the world was not as connected online as it is now. Nowadays, the Kindle, iPhone and Blackberries are valid platforms. Charge them some amount per month and they will pay for the convenience.
    I think 2010/2011 will be the years where this switch happens... But not for all pubs.
    I can easily see the Wall Street Journal charging for access. No brainer.
    But for New York Post? Nah. They can pump ads up the wazoo on that thing and offset cost.
    Pay for content is not an automatic thing, but for some content it will work well.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    08/06/09

    @SpyMagician: The Post doesn't count, it's been a loss-leader since Murdoch purchased it. It's never been profitable.
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    Image of Barret Lee Fisher Barret Lee Fisher
    08/06/09

    In reply to You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
    He warned that "the big competition will be coming from the BBC," which offers online news for free, but said: "Our policy is to win."'

    The BBC has clearly cornered the market on this "free news" fad.
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    Image of Robert Synnott Robert Synnott
    08/06/09

    @Barret Lee Fisher: There's competition between Fox News and the BBC? Surely any Fox News reader/watcher would explode in wingnut rage if exposed to the terrible BIASED BBC? :)
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    Image of gooneruk gooneruk
    08/06/09

    @Barret Lee Fisher: Yeah, for everybody who isn't British. Everybody in the UK pays a "licence fee" which funds the BBC, including its newsgathering and website departments.
    [OK, almost everybody. There are a few people who don't own TVs and don't pay. Weirdos.]
    If you view BBC News, or any other BBC website from outside the UK, you get adverts, in an effort to provide funding for all of the bandwidth consumption, etc, that non-Brits use. Else we British would be subsidising the site for everyone else in the world!
    So "free" only really applies to point-of-use. It's not totally free for its main audience of Brits.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    08/06/09

    @Robert Synnott: Surely you know that the Fox News Channel is tiny, almost insignificant part of the Newscorp whole, don't you? In fact, in the UK, through its various SkyTV entities, Newscorp is the main competition for the BBC.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    08/06/09

    @Robert Synnott: Surely you know that the Fox News Channel is tiny, almost insignificant part of the Newscorp whole, don't you? In fact, in the UK, through its various SkyTV entities, Newscorp is the main competition for the BBC.
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    Image of Rhymenocerous Rhymenocerous
    08/06/09

    @gooneruk: I love it when you say "adverts."
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    Image of Barret Lee Fisher Barret Lee Fisher
    08/06/09

    @gooneruk: Oh. Wow. Britain has socialized the news, too? Madness!
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    08/03/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    Thank God for Amy Goodman.
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    Image of Forgetitjake Forgetitjake
    08/03/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    "... the big picture in all of this: that we now shamelessly live in an age when ..."

    Where you been, son?
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