Black Flag - “Depression”
"I’m just so over it."
RUPERT MURDOCH = NewsCorp = FOX, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, MySpace, etc…
An interview with an emperor ignorant of his empire’s decline…
- Murdoch says [7:09] people will still be buying paper newspapers for 20 more yrs. That sounds really off base to me. http://mag.ma/8nyo3t
- Murdoch to make News Corp content unsearchable as part of pay strategy. MUST SEE VIDEO: http://mag.ma/181587 This sounds INSANE!
- Murdock wants to challenge the concept of fair use in the courts and have it “barred altogether” [4:45]
I have to watch this tomorrow.
Notes from Ron: Americans should really watch this for these reasons
#1. They will grasp that Murdoch isn’t American.
#2. They will grasp from that, that he isn’t this magical “Jew controlled media” which is always laughable.
#3. They will understand that he isn’t Republican.
#4. They will understand that Glenn Beck isn’t Republican either but Libertarian.
#5. The headline on the Mag.me site says “Rupert Murdoch Agrees With Glenn Beck That Obama Is A Racist.” If you watch this video, and you don’t understand what he said so much that you can make this headline, you probably have little or no business working as a journalist. You are no better for this than Glenn Beck is for his insane fodder. You ARE doing the same thing. Don’t add your own flare to pull in readers.
#6. I’m 28 minutes in and I have yet to find anything Murdoch is wrong about. See, Billionaires don’t get that way from luck. I have met around a dozen billionaires over the past few years and spoken with many of them. Not one of them gave me the idea that they didn’t understand things. Then again, Murdoch doesn’t have the expert point of view compared to a Tumblr blogger. (Note: This doesn’t mean you are wrong, but it clearly doesn’t make him wrong.)
To the comments above:
Do you mean that papers will still be around or won’t? As far as will, anyone can understand we don’t have a technical need for them as far as a means to get news. In 20 years that need will be even less. As far as won’t, if you think that a 60 year old today is going to magically make a conversion to digital news only, you are “way off base.” So there will be a market but it will decline over time heavily.
You also talk about “fair rights.” A child can understand how fair rights fucks business. Let me guess… you have a blog? Do you take every picture on it? Do you create the music for every video you post? Do you counter articles from news media (just like you did in this post) and use that for your content? Blogs steal. Just because we are used to getting things free it doesn’t mean we don’t flat out steal them. 20 years ago imagine Time magazine talking an article from Newsweek and printing it in Time. That same thing happens at an unstoppable pace online.
Why is it that people can understand stealing music is bad but not stealing a photographers work? A journalists work? A camera crew and editors work? While I love the freedom to gather information that the web has provided, I also understand that with “free” the quality goes down heavily. Where will bloggers steal content from if there are no more journalists? You can’t keep shitting out “Top ten” posts forever (which can almost always be used again the next year). Why should the Wall Street Journal be free because you have easier access to it?
Hardcore web users have a common problem. Free content for them leads them to believe that everyone does the same. While I agree that most print media is dead (actually I will post an interview I was in a year and a half ago saying this) it will take time for a complete consumer conversion. One thing you also clearly can’t grasp is that blocking news from hitting Google actually takes money away from Google. Why is it OK for Google to use content? (I understand it isn’t an intent of Google to do this but it happens none the less.)
To understand this stuff you really need to ask yourself these things: Do I agree/disagree with this because of how I personally use the web? Do I use or access free content that a business somewhere paid to get? Do I expect to get content free because its just how I have always received content? Do I honestly think that businesses can function under this ‘everything is free” business model and do I somehow still hold the opinion at the very same time that I am happy to see news media/ print media go down?
Finally: To show you how out of touch the original poster is, read this again “RUPERT MURDOCH = NewsCorp = FOX, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, MySpace, etc…” If you don’t laugh out loud at what makes this sound like a child wrote it, then you probably have no business commenting on this.
