[LINK] Murdoch papers to charge for websites by 2010

[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:15 PM 6/08/2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Executives are still to decide how much the UK's online newspaper
>readers will be billed and for what sorts of content, but Mr Murdoch
>said he was not scared about losing readers if he is the first to start
>charging. "If we are successful, we will be followed by all," he
>predicted. Fees will be introduced by the end of News Corp's financial
>year, which runs until next June.

In the words of The Castle, he's dreamin'. There are far too many 
news outlets to worry about Uncle Rupert's bunch. And considering 
many of his are a bit of 'shock' news, nothing missed. I may miss 
some of The Australian, though. Then again, I won't know what I've missed.

The NYT and others have already tried pay and given up.

Funny how The Age gave a headline about this (online), then provided 
no details about when it would happen or even much of anything about 
it in the body of the story.

Jan



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