rupert murdoch pay for online news content


Pay for online news content? Why Rupert Murdoch is a Desperate Man (or how the internet is making traditional media obsolete)

PART 1.
“Feisty”, “combative”, “shrewd”, “pugnacious”, “clever”.. All words I’d use to describe Rupert Murdoch the owner of News International, Sky TV, The Times, the Sun and more. But I’d never have described him as “desperate”.. until this week.

This week Murdoch launched an attack on online journalistic thieves who steal the stories of his “expensive and distinguished journalists” who he says invest “days, weeks or even months in their stories”.

Murdoch brands these parasitic vultures “aggregators”