Comments on: The business model for news is and always has been broken and Rupert Murdoch can't fix it http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: 114.96.36.197 http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/#comment-2170 114.96.36.197 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:54:01 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1808#comment-2170 In a sense, I don’t agree with what Rupert Murdoch have said any more, there is no doubt that the consumers must pay for the news after enjoying the service, if they don’t, who will?

]]> By: Harry Gin http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/#comment-2169 Harry Gin Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:42:58 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1808#comment-2169 Murdoch is saying nothing that we dont alrady know. Many forms of content are going the way of the internet; its faster, easier, it can be updated quicker, and in many businesses it streamlines enterprises allowing it to reduce its costs.
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]]> By: 187.132.145.238 http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/#comment-2168 187.132.145.238 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:57:27 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1808#comment-2168 Unlike a lot of whiners who don`t accept what

]]> By: Thomas Sinfield http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/#comment-2167 Thomas Sinfield Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:45:51 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1808#comment-2167 I really cannot see a large number of people paying for general news. If it is specialised advice or recommendations. However, with the amount of news websites available, why would a person pay for one website when they can get the news for free elsewhere?

]]> By: Howard Weaver http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/#comment-2166 Howard Weaver Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:11:32 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1808#comment-2166 I guess you don’t believe Murdoch means it when he says people will pay *if* :we give them something of good and useful value.”

If you stipulate that, your post makes no sense, does it? You arguing that his plan won’t work because he isn’t offering something of value. Then you contradict that with WSJ example.

Why not just say “online users won’t pay for commodity news”? Pretty much everybody understands that. Shouldn’t the debate be about whether we can create products and services around news that the will pay for?

The alternative, it seems to me, is that there is nothing at all about news that people will pay for. That hasn’t been tested, much less proved.

http://editor.blogspot.com/2009/12/revenue-for-news-what-if-were-asking_12.html

]]> By: 173.64.53.215 http://www.ojr.org/the-business-model-for-news-is-and-always-has-been-broken-and-rupert-murdoch-cant-fix-it/#comment-2165 173.64.53.215 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:25:51 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1808#comment-2165 The full Lippmann quote can be read here:

http://www.howardowens.com/content/walter-lippmann-free-press

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