Rupert Murdoch said quality journalism is not cheap!

[Pharaoh]

Rupert Murdoch plans charge for all news websites by next summer

Times and Sun readers to pay as loss-making Murdoch declares end to free-for-all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/06/rupert-murdoch-website-charges

Rupert Murdoch said quality journalism is not cheap and so he intends to charge for all his websites.

The billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch suffered the indignity of seeing his global empire make a huge financial loss yesterday and promptly pledged to shake up the newspaper industry by introducing charges for access to all his news websites, including the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, by next summer.

Stung by a collapse in advertising revenue as the recession shredded Fleet Street's traditional business model, Murdoch declared that the era of a free-for-all in online news was over.

"Quality journalism is not cheap," said Murdoch.

[mix]

1. Hasn' t this revenue model been tried and failed before? n/t

[sendero]

4. Yes it has..

... he's full of shit if he thinks anyone is going to pay for that shit he calls "journalism".

Broadcasters, newspapers and other media outlets have tried the pay to read deal and vanishingly few have made it work.

The kind of morons that think Fox is news are not going to pay jack.

He's all talk, he knows all this stuff unless he's going senile.

[Patsy Stone]

2. Especially when you lost $3.4 billion dollars last year.

Good luck with that, Rupe.

[Pharaoh]

3. Why should anyone pay

for right wing lies?

Go ahead Rupert :freak:

[Patsy Stone]

5. I think

one should be forced to pay for them.

But the truth should be free. :)

[Uncle Joe]

6. What the hell does Murdoch know about "quality journalism"

and why haven't we seen any from his puppet organizations to date!?:shrug:

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Neither is crap and illegal 'journalism', Rupert, when practised by you

James Murdoch 'agreed with payout to Gordon Taylor for privacy claim'

• News International chief agreed with £700,000 settlement

James Murdoch, the News International executive chairman, was aware of Gordon Taylor's breach of privacy claim and agreed with the decision to settle for £700,000 after a private investigator working for the News of the World hacked into the Professional Footballers' Association chief executive's phone, MPs were told today.

The News International head of legal, Tom Crone, and the News of the World editor, Colin Myler, took the settlement figure to Murdoch for his approval, MPs on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee hearing into privacy, press standards and libel heard.

Myler told the committee that Crone – who was also giving evidence to MPs today – advised him after taking legal advice that News International should settle the case brought by Taylor, whose phone messages were hacked into by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

Mulcaire was sent to prison for six months in January 2007 for hacking into the messages of Taylor and other public figures, including Elle Macpherson, and members of the royal household.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/21/james-murdoch-gordon-taylor

[Stevenmarc]

8. Yes Rupert, quality journalism is not cheap, and cheap journalism has no quality