{"id":519730,"date":"2010-04-07T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100407\/0245048908.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:23:00","slug":"rupert-murdoch-doesnt-recognize-that-theres-competition-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519730","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Recognize That There’s Competition Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

People keep insisting that we’re crazy to think that Rupert Murdoch is going down the wrong path with his paywall plans. I keep hearing from people saying “don’t bet against Rupert — he’s the sharpest guy in the news business and he knows what he’s doing.” But I just can’t see it. Not when he continues to say things that just aren’t true. The latest, sent in by reader sinsi<\/a>, involves yet another interview with Murdoch where he insists that once he puts up paywalls Google and Microsoft will be forced to stop<\/a> linking to his stuff. Instead, he wants them to put up a subscription form<\/b>:<\/p>\n


\n“We’ll be very happy if they just publish our headline or a sentence or two and that’s followed by a subscription form,”
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Ok, Rupert, how about you start? After all, we’ve pointed out that a ton of your own properties have news aggregators<\/a>, and looking through them, not a single one appears to have subscription forms. Why not?<\/p>\n

But, even more ridiculous, is his insistence that people will start paying:<\/p>\n


\n“I think when they’ve got nowhere else to go they’ll start paying,”
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Not if<\/i> but when<\/i>. Recent profiles of Murdoch have suggested he doesn’t use the web, so perhaps he doesn’t realize it, but there’s always somewhere else to go<\/i>, and if News Corp. is so short-sighted to lock itself away from the open web, well that just opens up a much greater opportunity for his competitors to make sure they’re<\/i> the place to go.<\/p>\n

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People keep insisting that we’re crazy to think that Rupert Murdoch is going down the wrong path with his paywall plans. I keep hearing from people saying “don’t bet against Rupert — he’s the sharpest guy in the news business and he knows what he’s doing.” But I just can’t see it. Not when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}