We will go somewhere
else
Newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch has been told that if he goes ahead
with cunning plan to stick pay walls erected around all News Corp-owned news
websites, his readers will go somewhere else.
A comment thread attached
to a report about the announcement contained about 140 replies from readers.
Most of then opposed to the move and many of them threatening to quit News
Corp websites when charges are applied. Murdoch has been removing
negative comments from the story, but Murdoch's moves are interesting
whether he fails or not.
Murdoch predicted that move would prove a success
and that others would follow his lead. He said that quality journalism is
not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply
cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting.
Ironically most of
his readers think the idea of Murdoch producing quality journalism is funny.
Most people look at it for free entertainment, wrote one reader. It is worth
the price at the moment, if it is not free then we will look elsewhere, he
said.