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Sorry, Rupert, I already have Twitter

Posted by admin on June 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

By Frank Moher
The Times shut down its old website on Tuesday and started directing all traffic to two new ones: thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk. These are the ones that they propose, at sometime in the indeterminate future, to start charging for.
I was interested to see how Rupert Murdoch, wily media titan that he is, intended to [...]

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Newspapers: no going back

Posted by admin on May 30, 2009 · 1 Comment 

By Frank Moher
We are beginning to see the outlines of the newspaper industry’s survival strategy, and it’s going to be this: since what we’ve been doing doesn’t work anymore, let’s go backwards and try something else that didn’t work. Namely, charging for online content.
The signs are everywhere. When John Stackhouse succeeded Edward Greenspon as Editor [...]

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Publish the damn book

Posted by admin on November 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment 

By Frank Moher
Rupert Murdoch has spoken, and now O.J.’s book and TV interview are gone. The Juice has been squeezed out. And everywhere, of course, newly-minted moralists proclaim that The Right Thing Has Been Done.
Not since Mel Gibson’s drunk driving arrest has so much fatuity been heard in one 24 hour period. Of course [...]

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