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Pay for online news content? Why Rupert Murdoch is a Desperate Man (or will the real news “aggregators” please stand up) Part 2

(Continued from Part 1).

Rupert Murdoch is no fool and surely realises that the internet is rapidly destroying the traditional journalistic function of newspapers, radio and TV (i.e. to break news stories and tell us what’s going on).

But his speech to the Federal Trade Commission’s Workshop seemed reluctant to admit it.
This is what psychiatrists call “cognitive dissonance”. Cognitive dissonance is when you refuse to accept the impact of new information because it’s too overwhelming.