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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    It was when Paterson replied back with a simple "Your Mother" that it all became real.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    And what happened then? Well, in New York they say, that Rupert's small heart grew three sizes that day.
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    11/19/09

    @econdave: He even looks like the Grinch in that picture. If only he were green.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    He has a lovely complexion and well-manicured eyebrows.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    "Sorry, mate. Oy only meant to imply you were stupid 'cause you're Black. Honest mistake."
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    He has the face of a baby pterodactyl.
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    Will there ever be an end to the pain and suffering this man is inflicting on the world?
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    Alzheimer's can strike at any age, Rupe. Might want to get tested.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    Dear Murdoch.

    I am sorry last night I said you fuck wombats.

    I retract the statement.

    Harmless petting is as far as it ever went, I'm sure.

    RRR
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rupert Murdoch Is Sorry He Called David Paterson Blind and Illiterate
    Looks like Murdoch is dreaming of prunes.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/18/09

    In reply to Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
    When I was a child, movie theater marquees were emblazoned with the slogan 'STOP PAY TV!" That didn't work, and pay TV seems to be doing just fine. #newscorporation
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/17/09

    In reply to Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
    The death of print is not a good thing, nor is it progress. The internet itself is not free. You don't have to pay to browse titles at a newsstand. We don't yet have the answer to the question: what replaces print news?

    People are NOT meant to sit and stare at electronic screens all day. They just aren't. #newscorporation
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    11/17/09

    @unclevanya: Honestly with the advent of E-paper like Kindle, I don't think the difference between reading news on paper versus screens will be very big. #newscorporation
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/17/09

    @ostartero: NASA spent millions developing a pen that would write in space. The Russians took pencils.

    The story may be apocryphal, but the lesson isn't. People who still can't access (or afford) the internet or own digital cable still have no idea what a Kindle is, or why it is allegedly better than picking up a newspaper or book.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    11/17/09

    In reply to Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
    Whether or not people say they're going to pay is irrelevant. The will pay, and it'll just be some tough shit if they don't want to. Because they won't have anything to look at otherwise.

    That's the great thing about being a media mogul. You can make people do stuff "just 'cuz".

    Also, it needs to be reiterated every time this story appears on this site (which is maybe two or three times a week), Gawker has a vested interest in content not going behind a paywall. Articles like these are opinion pieces more than anything resembling journalism (I know, it's Gawker, journalism doesn't come into it). #newscorporation
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    Image of Joe Mitchell's Secret Joe Mitchell's Secret
    11/18/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Let's all hope so. #newscorporation
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/17/09

    In reply to Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
    The hook to sell paywall stuff is "Quality" but does anyone remember the big, expensive studies that Chris Whittle ran which determined that people would not pay more for literary or journalistic quality?

    Just me then?

    Also: since when have those been hallmarks of the Murdockian realm anyway? #newscorporation
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/18/09

    @raincoaster: The New Yorker costs more than Vanity Fair. #newscorporation
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    11/18/09

    @themediatrix: Does it really? I wouldn't know; haven't bought it in years. #newscorporation
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    11/18/09

    @raincoaster: Yes - I have a press subscription but even with that it's more. So -- I'm curious -- what is it that you pay more for in order to get that "literary or journalistic quality?"
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    11/18/09

    @themediatrix: I have a terrible crush on Michael Lewis, and I have always loved the rich douches up on charges beat that used to be Dominick Dunne's.

    If I want literature, I read Granta. If I want creative, interesting nonfiction, I read Maisonneuve.
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    11/19/09

    @raincoaster: Dunne's beat = guilty pleasure.

    Most memorable piece I read in Granta was in fact, creative non-fiction: "Death of a Harvard Man" by Simon Schama. I'll never forget it.

    Not familiar with Maisonneuve. I'll never give up my New Yorker, though. I'll always love it.
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    11/19/09

    @themediatrix: Maisonneuve is really one of the best things out there, but it's a Canadian rag and subject to funding cuts. Pick it up if you see it somewhere. It's blissfully free of that wistful/Existential/prairie childhood reminiscences disease that most other creative nonfiction mags are enslaved to.

    I used to pay for the Tatler, a huge premium, but that was back ten years or more, when it was, you know, good.
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    11/19/09

    @raincoaster: Will definitely keep an eye out for it.
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    11/19/09

    @themediatrix: [maisonneuve.org]
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/17/09

    In reply to Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
    It is a matter of public record that in the Earp household in Tombstone, circa 1880, Wyatt took every regional newspaper and sat down in the den upon the pile not to include the one he was scanning. He was looking for his own name. That's all. He would release the Epigraph and the Benson Bugle to the household when he had searched them, and not before, and this on the authority of Mrs Virgil Earp herself.

    Back when news was a nickel, he could do that with just his poker winnings. But if prices went up, he, like the rest of us,would study just how much of the papers he actually read. Not much. Nobody reads it all, and most skip quite a bit, like browsing online, which is why it would be hard to sell Wyatt on paying a higher price when all he wants to see is two words, and if they ain't there, the paper's worthless. #newscorporation
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