[LINK] Newspapers online

[David Goldstein]

The article said "becoming the first media firm to test consumers' appetite to pay for mass-market news online." Note the words "mass-market".

David




----- Original Message ----
> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
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> Sent: Sat, 27 March, 2010 2:56:28 PM
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> I got to the first paragraph and it was not actually true.

On 
> 2010/Mar/27, at 12:26 PM, > href="mailto:stephen at melbpc.org.au">stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> 
> News Corp to charge for UK Times online from June
>
> by Georgina 
> Prodhan, London, Fri Mar 26, 2010  www.reuters.com
>
>
> 
> (Reuters) - News Corp will charge readers for online versions of its  
> 
> UK
> Times and Sunday Times newspapers from June, becoming the 
> first media
> firm to test consumers' appetite to pay for mass-market news 
> online.

First media company to ask people to pay for online news?  I 
> don't  
think so.  Is its content in general going to be as 
> accurate as this?  
Off the top of my head I can think of 2 media firms 
> which have had  
paid news sites for several years.  There may be 
> lots of paid sites so  
obscure that few of us have ever heard of them 
> or that have  
disappeared into the bit bucket.

Kim
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