Murdochgate and the Crisis of News
You can arrest Andy Coulson, you can sack two hundred journalists, and take the News of the World off the face of the earth, but the problem will not go away. News is in crisis, but believing that it is a crisis stemming from the lies, deceitfulness, and illegality of hacking is misplaced. Understanding the roots of the crisis requires a critical interrogation of the terms on which newspapers in operate.
The Daily: Indexed
News Corp's The Daily is publishing free, web-based versions to every article. Without an index, however, it is very inconvenient to find or link to individual articles from the web. And since the iPad app appears to only carry today's edition, it makes finding any historical articles you have paid for nearly impossible. So I went ahead and made one for them! Introducing, The Daily: Indexed...
http://waxy.org/2011/02/the_daily_indexed/
Paywall: Murdoch in the shit
Most consumers (91%) would be unwilling to pay to access Rupert Murdoch's Times Online. Only 5% said they would fork out £2 for a week's digital subscription, while 4% said they would pay £1 for a day's access. News International will introduce paywalls around its online content in the next month. Earlier this week News International's commercial chief, Paul Hayes, said he would be "in the shit" if the group's paywall plans did not work.
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/bulletin/mediapm/article/1006144/
The Fall of the House of Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch will celebrate his 79th birthday next month. As he approaches his final years at the helm of his empire, he finds it crumbling around him."It's terrible now," a News Corp. insider tells Gawker, relating the slow, Shakespearian devolution of Murdoch's fierce machinery into turmoil, factionalism, and infighting. The old man, nearing the end of his reign, no longer inspires enough fear or loyalty to keep the jostling for power beneath the surface, and a Lord of the Flies ugliness abounds.Murdoch is a vile man, who has done vile things. It is fitting that the black empire he built so efficiently over the course of his life should begin to fray at the end of his reign.
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