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He's attempting to pull the same strategy as a union, unfortunately for him there's thousands of other workers willing to work for less then he is now...]]>Nov 9th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 9th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/
Hey doofus, about 90% of the newspapers and nearly that many TV and radio news outlets rely on AP. As for Murdoch, he's hardly obsolete - he owns Fox and Sky News which have their own field gathering (although they use AP and probably every other source as well). don't fault anyone for wanting somebody to pay for their product - would YOU work for free? However, the only model that makes sense is a bundled scheme, i.e. paying one modest monthly subscription to get access to multiple sites. If Yahoo had a clue they'd be all over this, pitching it hard to Murdoch and the rest of the industry. Being the also-ran of portals, nobody will go nuts if they become a pay-content middleman, whereas Google could never get away with it.]]>Nov 9th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 9th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/
(no, I don't really want to make a fight, but that was a target just too big to avoid...)]]>Nov 9th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 9th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Who cares? Most of it is jibberish anyway.]]>Nov 9th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 7:43AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 12:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/
Everyone needs some form of the mass media (although not filtered through people like Murdoch). The previous poster who said "someone" will do it but the problem is that the "someone" might be Murdoch and he will have no competing opinion because every other media could be out of business if they don't start getting paid. Frankly, what would be the problem with having a collection of mass payments in which everyone gave a dollar or two toward the cause? ]]>Nov 10th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/I will no longer listen to fox news, read the Wall Street Journal or Sun articles, and stop paying for the Wall street Journal.
I refuse to put one more penny in his pocket!!!
He is the one with the big ego, not Google..
I love Google and the services it provides for FREE..]]>Nov 10th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/
You get what you pay for in news (like anything else). First to go, even though you might not have noticed it, is the more expensive foreign coverage. And you may say well, "I don't really care about what's happening in other countries" but there are those who make a good argument that we might not have been so blind to the circumstances which led to 9/11 if the networks hadn't have cut their foreign presence so much.

We all need good, factual information and the system that has traditionally provided this is hanging in the balance right now. The people who do this job conscientiously and well can't work for free forever. And, even if it appears that there is a lot of redundancy in coverage--it's a check and balance system against a potential monopoly network's substandard or lack of coverage. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to expect to pay a small amount (somehow) to maintain quality journalism.]]>Nov 10th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/
If Murdoch doesn't want Google indexing his site, he can pay one of his retarded monkey webmasters to block Google and that's all there is to it. The "robots.txt" file is nothing new, it has been a part of the internet for years and years.

This is nothing more than a publicity stunt, and it really shows how out of touch Murdoch is with the rest of the world.
]]>Nov 10th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Yea, pay news sites...great idea, I'm sure that will work out well for your Rupert! (LMAO)]]>Nov 10th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-wants-news-corp-sites-off-google/Nov 10th 2009 1:25PM