[LINK] Rupert keeps up his pay model threats

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Ivan Trundle
> Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2010 3:06 PM
> To: Jan Whitaker
> Cc: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Rupert keeps up his pay model threats
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/02/2010, at 2:51 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 
> > Rupert Murdoch has suggested the iPad and the Kindle would be
> > ''unloved and unsold'' without creativity from companies like his 
> > News Corporation.
> 
> Blinkered and most certainly not sleep-walking, but 
> delusional self-interest. Mind you, to get to the top of that 
> particular pile, you'd have to be spectacularly blinkered 
> into believing that the fourth estate was the most important 
> thing in the world.
> 

But the fourth estate is the most important content copier in th world.

I believe the words were "Creativity from companies like News Corp".

Koltai translation:  AAP content reworded with the Murdoch spin.

I'm just having a smnall problem in seeing where the value proposition
to non-politicians is.
I mean who else is prepared to pay to read about themselves.

Tom


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