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Sky News political editor David Speers talks to News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch about paywalls, politics, and more.
Sort by Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) - 09/11/2009
In an interview with Sky New in Australia, Rupert Murdoch said today he wanted to block Google from indexing its stories once he starts charging for newspapers. He also said he wanted to challenge the doctine of “fair use” of his content on other websites. He also calls the BBC “a scandal” (9m50s). via Leon on Twitter.
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Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul who hasn't shied away from revealing his true feelings towards Google. The best way to sum them up? If Google didn't exist, he would be all the happier. Earlier this year, Murdoch asked cable industry execs " Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights? " His response: media execs should be saying " Thanks, but no thanks " to Google. That's easier said than...
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Rupert Murdoch on Sky News: Make of it what you will. It seems pretty incoherent to me. I think Cory Doctorow’s pretty much right – these musings are fantasies, and his editors are going to have a horrible time trying to implement all these confused thought bubbles. Elsewhere: Gary Sauer-Thompson.
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Mr Murdoch is being lambasted today by the Chatterati Eloi(te)* of the technojournoblogosphere because he allegedly said that he would pull News International content off Google. Except, thats not quite what he said. What he said was, and I quote: “I think we will [Pull it off Google], but that’s when we start charging....” Context, as they say, is king - and that but was followed immediately - in...
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We already know that Rupert Murdoch is planning to launch a paid content strategy sometime next year but in a recent Sky News interview he went one step further and said that they would be blocking Google from indexing content from their websites. Some papers might do well by charging for content but surely charging for [...] Not getting the rankings you want? Hire us for Search engine optimisation...
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I think Rupert Murdoch is losing his mind over this: Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire – including the Sun , the Times and the Wall Street Journal – would consider blocking Google entirely once they had enacted plans...
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Sky News political editor David Speers talks to News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch about paywalls, politics, and more. Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals Murdoch also claims that News Corp believes that the doctrine of Fair Use can be challenged in court and "barred altogether." http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08/rupert-murdoch-vows.html...
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In an interview with Sky New in Australia, Rupert Murdoch said today he wanted to block Google from indexing its stories once he starts charging for newspapers.
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I find Rupert strangely reassuring - sad, angry and confused as he is. We discover that he is, after all, human.
