Independent: Nice try – but you’re wrong, Mr Murdoch
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:09
Stephen Foley: "[If] newspaper executives on both sides of the Atlantic follow Mr Murdoch's apparent lead, I predict we will witness the collective suicide of scores of news organisations in the US and elsewhere. Some viable players will squander the chance to find a place in a new landscape of the news business, which is only just starting to be mapped out. … I think it is probably suicidal even for Mr Murdoch's titles. The Sun and the New York Post get an "astronomical" number of hits when they have a celebrity scoop, he pleads, but he's talking about a few stories a week at best, and a scoop is only a scoop for a fraction of a second on the web. News Corp has copyright on the words its journalists write, but no patent on the facts they discover."
Business Insider: From Celeb Pics To The WSJ, News Corp Will Charge For Everything Online (NWS)
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:05
"[Rupert Murdoch] overestimates the value of celebrity scoops. TMZ broke the story of Michael Jackson's death. We know this because we watch the Web publishing space obsessively. Most people don't. TMZ got a lot of traffic breaking the story — 33% over its previous record. But Yahoo, which was even a little late to the story, crushed it too, setting all-time record in unique visitors with 16.4 million people. Yahoo's front page story “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital” saw 800,000 clicks in 10 minutes."
paidContent:UK: Murdoch On Leading The Charging Charge
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:01
Rupert Murdoch's response to a critical question from Telegraph reporter: "You can sneer at it from the Telegraph but I’m sure your great scoop, the about parliamentary expenses, people would be very happy to have been paying for that on a website.” Hmm.
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 08:00
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Jeff Jarvis on CNN’s exclusive Virginia Tech mobile phone footage: "The value of an exclusive today lasts about 30 seconds."
