Posted on 08/05/2009 9:28:46 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Vivian Schiller, now CEO of National Public Radio in the US, said in an interview with Newsweek last week that talk of charging for news online is "mass delusion". She should know. Schiller was head of nytimes.com when it charged and then stopped charging for its content.
If you can charge for your content - if you are the FT or the Wall Street Journal, the only brands that do it successfully - and your readers can make money on your content, and pass the cost of it onto their employers I have nothing against it. But for most, pinning hopes for the survival of news on charging for it is not only futile but possibly suicidal.
Charging for content brings marketing and customer-service costs. Online, it reduces audience and the advertising they justify. Putting content behind a wall cuts it off from search and links; they cut off your Googlejuice............"
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
You can charge for serious journalism.
The problem is that Almost all so called journalism has just become variants on AP newslines.
Who’s gonna “pay” for that?
That will only make freerepublic more popular. I’m sure some will pay, but the vast majority will move along to where it’s free.
Murdoch doesn’t understand the internet very well. Most of us will not pay for our news, we’ll just go elsewhere for it.
You would have to pay for content somewhere to get the AP, Reuters, etc. story. If someone tries to post that content for free they will get landed on hard. Excerpt and link would only work if subscribers with privileges to the same source were talking to each other.
87% of the revenue for American newspapers comes from advertising. Murdoch must come up with a better business model for the Internet that will attract advertisers. Limiting the number of viewers will just reduce advertising revenue.
I think this may be different. The big players will follow Murdoch and that would include AP, Reuters etc. Then they sue anyone using their content without payment. Fair Use will be under continuous challenge.
It could be one step in trying to control the information flow. Independent internet news and blogs don’t exactly support the party line if you know what I mean.
Either that or Murdoch is just another stupid, greedy ba$tard.
Unfortunately, this may save the NYT.
That is possible.
Not only that..we PICK our news. We laugh at AP and other MSM stories because of their amusing leftwing slant. FR is where I get my news.
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BINGO! Its all the same leftover leftie propaganda. I get most of my global news from Europe and Asia and they don;t seem to want to charge anything at all...
The leftist monopoly is ending. That's why the White House is making fools of themselves today with the fishy web site. They can't rely on a national media to hype the bullsh*t anymore...
People only buy the Times so they look cool reading it. If it becomes a private experience, the Leftist bullshit will become so daunting and boring that people simply won't pay.
The era of custom "news" via PDA is at hand and those in the know will be twittering and "apping" for news. A slow loading web page full of immature crap will not sell. Read Tim Egan's nonsense on today's NYT web site for a perfect example of how the left thinks we all still watch Sesame Street....
Hard copy newspapers are going the way of the buggy whip. There are a number of reasons why with the internet and the electronic media being major ones. Young people just don't read newspapers like their parents do or did. And newspapers are just a daily snapshot compared to the steady stream of news from TV, radio, and the Internet. Moreove, you have access to more sources.
He has only the power internet readers give to him. If we make him fail, we will deter all others. They make money on hits and advertisers. We have to give him zero hits unless we want to pay for all news sources on the Net.
Let this business model fail. They get hits and advertizing rates that reflect those hits; or they go belly up!
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