{"id":115832,"date":"2009-12-30T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2009\/12\/30\/kill-the-bloggers.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:54:48","slug":"kill-the-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115832","title":{"rendered":"Kill The Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YOUR NEW REALITY <\/a>
\nTuesday, Dec 29th, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Another mainstream media story, this time from the New York Times<\/a>,
\npushing the new reality where news consumers will supposedly have to
\nsoon start paying digital cash to read stories, columns and watch news
\nvideo online. I\u2019ve been reading about this for getting onto two
\nyears, and and it seems no closer to reality. Not much new in this story<\/a>, but this final quote says it all about the biggest problem Old Media dinosaurs like Rupert Murdoch face :<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the problems is newspapers fired so many
\njournalists and turned them loose to start so many blogs. They should
\nhave executed them. They wouldn\u2019t have had competition. But they
\nfoolishly let them out alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too many bloggers and citizen journos willing to work for free.<\/p>\n

For paid news content to work, and to generate the kinds of profits
\nthat media empires were once built on, the majors will have to
\neliminate the competition, including thousands of non-professional
\nbloggers and ex-journos, who still want to keep writing, regardless of
\nhow justly or unjustly they are compensated for their work and effort.<\/p>\n

Of course, Rupert Murdoch could stop paying himself and his family
\ntens of millions of dollars a year, and eliminate one of the biggest
\ncosts of mega-corporate media : paying the massive executive salaries
\nof those who don\u2019t do any journalism any at all. <\/span>Another mainstream media story, this time from the New York Times<\/span><\/a>,
\npushing the new reality where news consumers will supposedly have to
\nsoon start paying digital cash to read stories, columns and watch news
\nvideo online. I\u2019ve been reading about this for getting onto two
\nyears, and and it seems no closer to reality. Not much new in this story<\/span><\/a>, but this final quote says it all about the biggest problem Old Media dinosaurs like Rupert Murdoch face :<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the problems is newspapers fired so many
\njournalists and turned them loose to start so many blogs. They should
\nhave executed them. They wouldn\u2019t have had competition. But they
\nfoolishly let them out alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too many bloggers and citizen journos willing to work for free.<\/p>\n

For paid news content to work, and to generate the kinds of profits
\nthat media empires were once built on, the majors will have to
\neliminate the competition, including thousands of non-professional
\nbloggers and ex-journos, who still want to keep writing, regardless of
\nhow justly or unjustly they are compensated for their work and effort.<\/p>\n

Of course, Rupert Murdoch could stop paying himself and his family
\ntens of millions of dollars a year, and eliminate one of the biggest
\ncosts of mega-corporate media : paying the massive executive salaries
\nof those who don\u2019t do any journalism any at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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