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Online news is bigger than print
ACCORDING TO RESEARCH by the Pew Internet Group, Americans would rather get their news on the web than have to deal with all that tree destroying, cumbersome newspaper business.
The idiot box and wireless are more popular sources for news than the web, but since it is difficult to go anywhere in America without being presented by one or the other we find this hardly surprising.
"The Internet is at the center of the story of how people's relationship to news is changing. Six in ten Americans (59 [per cent]) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day, and the Internet is now the third most popular news platform, behind local television news and national television news," said Pew.
Whether Rupert Murdoch finds consolation in this remains to be seen, especially since he has the top three nicely wrapped up and plans to monetise his news content. However, he's likely to splutter something when he reads that two-thirds of Americans do not have a single favourite website and just one-fifth rely on only one site for their news.
Old Rupert must be hoping that it is this 20 odd percent that visit his Fox TV network news websites, because after all, these are the people he expects to fund them with loyalty payments.
The use of social notworking websites and mobile phones have contributed to the success of online news according to Pew, which added that people use them anywhere and any time to check the news. µ
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go on murdoch, do your worst and stop internet news
people will vote with their feet and go to independant sites which will probably have real news instead of your celebrity cult sh*t. then your empire will crumble
the only hope you have is to bribe politicans to change the law
..hang on, dont you do that already?
but the only one the pay model could possibly work would be to offer people a free model for a while(minimum 3 months with a restricted number of page views after that) and then try to charge them after that. But unless the charges are really low, like a quarter(American dollar) and article, I don't think it will be very successful.
But I've been wrong before.