{"id":519392,"date":"2010-04-07T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=111335"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:00:42","slug":"murdoch-getting-lonely-inside-his-walled-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519392","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch Getting Lonely Inside His Walled Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rupert Murdoch, the octogenarian chairman of News Corp., was at it again during a recent National Press Club interview at George Washington University — it being his routine bashing of news aggregators<\/a> such as Google and Yahoo (although Google is typically the only one Murdoch mentions during his tirades), along with a call to arms for the newspaper industry, which Murdoch says must eventually embrace paywalls whether it wants to or not. Readers might not like them, the News Corp. founder said, but will wind up paying for the news<\/a> “when they’ve got nowhere else to go.” The Murdoch-owned Times of London and Sunday Times are both expected to launch pay access in June<\/a>. According to a number of reports about the interview, Murdoch said:<\/p>\n

We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing\u2026there is a law of copyright and they recognise it. They take [news content] for nothing. They have got this very clever business model.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also said of the iPad<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I got a glimpse of the future last weekend with the Apple iPad. It is a wonderful thing. If you have less newspapers and more of these\u2026it may well be the saving of the newspaper industry. It doesn’t destroy the traditional newspaper, it just comes in a different form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n