News Corp to charge for web content

No one is going to pay for the steaming pile of feces that News Corp. tries to pass off as "news". The Internet is ruled by freetards and begging for money for substandard content is a revenue window that will be closed by a single click every time News Corp. extends their tin cup for some change.
Go die a slow death, News Corp. You won't be missed.

Been nice knowin ya see y'all at Bankruptcy court..

Why would I pay to view "news" I can read elsewhere for naught?
Or.... Turn on the tele and watch it?

Wouldn't be such a joke if the majority of the crud the printed/posted wasn't pulled from either the IP of routers.

This guy s a joke thinking folks are going to actually pay to read that trash.

is a moot point. Who'd want all that dreary, tragic, saddening and wholly unwholesome InformAtion anyway?
I'll stick with Jester Corp, also known as the Inquirer, thank you ever so much.

I think that he overestimates the popularity of his news service.

I read his websites, but if they are not free I'll go elswhere. Dumb. It's not like it has ever succeded the hundreds of times tried befor.

Obviously,
they can't decide so together, behind closed doors,
but if INSTEAD,
they all do so because it's necessary to force revenue, *without* "collusion",
then they CAN survive,
simply by making certain that any free "competition" gets snuffed
( bought & terminated ),
so their revenue can be enforced.

Blunt economics: force income if that's the way to increase the bottom line.

Why aren't the media-corporations as abusive/effective as Microsoft?
it's their SURVIVAL at stake!

Whatever: either they will close "free" information off totally, or they themselves will die.

No alternative, really: if even 1 single free source remains, it'll bleed their profits deeply.

The Gov't probably would prefer such a "controlled" world, too ( only "authorized" content, all others considered automatically "criminal" .. how simple to deal with the population, then?
China, Britain, US, Burma, Australia, maybe EU, all candidates for such a world, in a few years? http://yro.slashdot.org/ for more details of the rights-hijack committed as we speak, by governments of ours )

On the one hand, we won't have to see so much of his propaganda polluting the net the way it pollutes TV & radio.

On the other hand he will be able to more easily identify & ban anyone who posts facts that poke holes in his lies in the comment sections.

After all, controlling access to outside facts is critical to brainwashing people.

Expect to see more stage managed drama & even more polarized sheeple.

Ad revenues are NOT big deal, as most ads are striped out & replaced, so much for dumb contractees. Does theINQ get anything for Classmates.com? NO.

However, once you PAY, on internet, denial of service attack often results, taking your precious money with hateful gleam, leaving You with zero.

Murdock has deep finanical ties & being payed by gov't to put up web pages is legal. So with NO readership to slow server aggrevators down, its FREE Money Market. those machines just keep putting in dole numbrers on bankaccount & spitting out unread webpages.

Its intresting How afraid poor local homie is of pay. "Oh, Please, Mista Murdrashek, don't make me pay". most havn't enough for busfare, let alone anything serious.

Exageratted readership numbers, Audiance of early teenagers(NO Money),& constant ripping of Page Contents make it more profitable to serve NOONE. Just enough to keep murds' FREE Lines Open. Stock SELLING & Suckers Biting. ITS FREE PRESS, YET NOT FOR YOU.

vondrashek

If he expects people to pay for the tripe they dish up now, he's overdue for the retirement home.

However, if it funds some actual journalism and serious content (I can believe I said that referring to News Corp) then it may have some merit... but it’ll be a hard sell for his outfit, as they have so little cred in that area.

The problem with the free internet news model is that there is not enough income from advertising to offset the costs of journalism... hence we get regurgitated dross about celebrities, opinion pieces from idiots, and one or two lines of world news via AP releases.

Watergate in the free internet news age... I don’t think so.

News Corp's product is commissioned creative fiction, and their real customers are masonic temples, local militias, government TLAs, churches, corporate boards, and synagogues. Only an idiot would read any of it in the first place.

This must be a recruitment to rank and bin that small group of elite idiots that can actually read well enough to sign up and pay for it.

Another Crack Suicide Squad perhaps?

of these tabloid rags either. but, I'm willing to wager that there are enough idiots out there that would/could be interested in this crud.

Otherwise he [Mr. Murdock] wouldn't have this "Media Empire" that everyone keeps going on about now, would he?

I for One don't buy those kinds of Papers (The Sun or as it's called here Der BILD ~and yes I know~ "Der BILD" is not ownd ~yet~ by NewsCorp).

The Point being if I needed that kind of Info I'd buy the Paper instead.

I however don't, and personally couldn't give a Sh-- about Jordan's Fat Arse laying on the Beach.

Ps. Who the Feck is Jordan anywas, and why are so many of you obsessed with her? (I'm from Germany, watching Freesat, it seems that this Bird is in all the Tabloid Rags)

...to drive traffic away, of course. Nothing coming out of News Corp has any meaningful value anyway (quite the opposite, actually). I certainly applaud "brilliant" ideas like this one, which will hopefully help to steer even more people away from that stinking pile of crap.

Do you really think you're smarter than a meglomaniac?

I put my money on Murdoch.

SKY sell me TV even though I can watch Freeview for free. They also bundle it with broadband and landline telephone. Chuck in a £1/month News Corp login and I might go for it.

It's the packaging and the wrapping, as well as the content.

ISP's are so slow to start selling us pacakges, it's a f#cking joke. They are such retards. Give me an ISP that does it the way SKY does - give me legal music included, legal software included, legal gaming, etc etc.

Mr ISP - wake the f#ck up and start selling me some packaged, wrapped content!

Microsoft should buy an ISP and start working out a deal for flogging Windows, Office etc, as part of the monthly subscription charges.

Or Microsoft should bundle their products into packages for the ISPs to sell to us.

If I had an ISP, it's what I would be looking at.

Let's see if I got this right a guy I hate is going to try to make me pay for something? I mean I stopped watching the Simpsons because of the cognitive dissonance of it all. And I can watch the Simpsons for free now so he thinks he's going to start charging for the Simpsons? Right and they say I'm mentally ill.