Can pay, but probably won’t
Rupert Murdoch’s plan to get readers to pay for online news looks doomed – a survey from Press Gazette says that “just 5% of readers will pay for online news”.
http://bit.ly/LAsqx
The article says that readers will pay for niche information (FT, WSJ and a couple of others), but not for general news. It’s too easy to get it from other sources.
What to do?
I’ve got a suggestion: Murdoch should push for a scheme that forces everyone to pay for his TV stations whether they watch them or not, then divert a huge chunk of their cash to his web sites, whether they visit them or not.
Nah. That’s a stupid idea. I mean, how could anyone get away with something like that?
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Rupert Murdoch’s plan to get readers to pay for online news looks doomed – a survey from Press Gazette says that “just 5% of readers will pay for online news”.
The article says that readers will pay for niche information (FT, WSJ and a couple of others), but not for general news. It’s too easy to get it from other sources.
What to do?
I’ve got a suggestion: Murdoch should push for a scheme that forces everyone to pay for his TV stations whether they watch them or not, then divert a huge chunk of their cash to his web sites, whether they visit them or not.
Nah. That’s a stupid idea. I mean, how could anyone get away with something like that?
😉
I’m getting the impression that you’re not a fan of the BBC or publicly funded media! (Personally, I think the BBC, with all it’s problems, is good value for money)
BBC does produce good stuff, but when people start talking about charging to access iPlayer content (http://bit.ly/Db1RO) I can feel the rage start to rise.