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Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
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Rupert Murdoch says his News Corp. plans to charge people to read its news sites. News Corp. properties include the New York Post, the Times of London, and the Wall Street Journal, which already requires a subscription fee.
Murdoch says the ad-supported news model is "malfunctioning."
Guest: Robert Andrews, paidContent:UK
I moved toward digital news because I travel, but I prefer paper. If Paper subscriptions could follow me then I would be a paper news reader. If news websites start charging for news and have advertising, it is not the same as a printed paper. I can move past paper ads faster or find them if I wish to view them in a paper much faster.
Currently I will view several news website to check different views only because they are free. If I have to pay for news I will only be willing to pay for a very select few. Being a member of MPR and TPT is paying for my news. Add BBC and/or the International Herald Tribune to the mix and I have more than I can read listen or view.
I would think that ABC, CBS, NBC and local news would love to see internet news charge money. I currently try to always catch national news and a 10pm local news and would set my DVR to record the news so I could do that for free. To view Free with ads works for me to pay with ads doesn't .....but wasn't that what cable was suppose to do for us?
I think we all know that we pay for news one way or the other. But if pay for news then it must come to me in any form I choose that day. I would expect to be able to see it on any computer I'm at, download to an e-reader, view on my smart phone all on the same day and not pay any minutes or transmit charge.
Prior to the internet, and still travel with a SW radio and listen to the BBC as I have traveled the world. I wish I could find a combo of my Sony ICF-SONY7600G and the now Digital radio. Now if I have good internet connection I can listen to more sources of news. Regardless of how I get radio, sitting on the patio, with a good single malt scotch listening to the news is more relaxing than having a hot laptop on your lap. Maybe if they can get an open source ebook as large screened as the new Kindle DX, back light and totally open source so I can download from anyone and wirelesslly sitting on the patio wouldn't be bad either.
Sorry for the long message. The last point and most concerning to me is that the control of the new media is getting down to very few people (at the top) and regardless of how we get the news today and tomorrow... I'm getting more fearful that more and more news sources are not giving us news that has been fact checked and held to any ethical standard but is instead sending propaganda that supports the people/companies objectives.
Cheers,
Steve
Posted by Steve Rusk | May 15, 2009 2:36 PM
