Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google

[Lunican]

Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google 'in months'



Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company’s content from Google’ search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.

Jonathan Miller, News Corp's chief digital officer, said the media mogul was ready to block Google's access to his sites soon and that the company would lead the media industry in this direction.

“There is real tension surrounding the free versus pay debate," Mr Miller told the Monaco Media Forum on Friday. "It will play out in the next two years. We believe that the value of high quality content is not recognised online [by giving its away for free) so something needs to happen.

“I don’t believe the media industry can continue to exist in this way.”

Full Article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/6559694/Rupert-Murdoch-to-remove-News-Corps-content-from-Google-in-months.html

This should be interesting. I think Murdoch is making a big mistake.

[buckethead]

I like free. The problem for news outlets is that it costs big money to do quality news and investigative reporting.

Since free sells  Murdoch will likely find another way to raise revenue.

[chipwich]

Since when did Fox news become "high quality content"?

Murdoch can take off what he wants.  If his patrons pay to view his ridiculous "news" sites, then that is their problem.

Only issue is I really do not trust Comcast taking over NBC. That merger worries me.

[Dan B]

I like free. The problem for news outlets is that it costs big money to do quality news and investigative reporting.

Since free sells  Murdoch will likely find another way to raise revenue.

Google has learned how to monetize its products, without passing the cost on directly to the user.

[Midway ®]

When HBO first appeared, movie theaters began a campaign to win public support for some sort of ban on that practice.

This is the same thing, just updated.

Dinosaur vs. the passage of time.

[stjr]

I wonder if Murdoch realizes how badly his purchase of MySpace is falling behind Facebook.  Maybe he doesn't understand the internet as well as he thinks.  I am counting on Google to outsmart him everytime in "TheirSpace" 

[Lunican]

I don't think anyone is looking to Murdoch for advice on internet business models.

In June 2008 he proclaimed that Facebook was just the flavor of the month.

Then this happened:

[Lunican]

Here is another interesting chart:

[hillary supporter]

Since when did Fox news become "high quality content"?

Good point. High quality content is the wall street journal. Although the newapaper media has been hit especially
hard by technology, internet access, the journal is one of the few, if not sole, paper to actually make money. And
many believe its because Murdoch converted the online edition to paid subscription right after buying it last summer. So this appears to be his next chess move in making news corp a big dog in the news media industry.

[chipwich]

I agree with your point about Wall Street Journal and I am sure he can also charge for Dow Jones services as well.  They require real data collection in the same fashion that Bloomberg does.

However, I cannot see any reason for anyone anywhere to pay for the hard hitting journalism of the New York Post or Fox News.  Those organizations are pretty much a joke.  They may have entertainment purposes, but are by no means worth a subscription fee.

I am sure BBC, NPR, Rueters, and the AP will still be around and avaiable at no cost after Murdoh starts charging fees.

[Reaper man]

Since when did Fox news become "high quality content"?

This.

I say good riddance.

[Lunican]

Murdoch is testing out the pay wall concept in Europe first.

British Times papers to charge for Web content

News International, the British division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., announced on Friday that two of its newspapers, The Times and The Sunday Times of London, are set to begin charging readers using its sites in June.

The two papers have been offering their content in a combined news Web site called Times Online. Under the new plan, however, News International would introduce new, separate sites for each publication in May, according to several news accounts citing a company statement.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20001311-93.html

[urbanlibertarian]

Since Fox News Channel is making a tidy profit I'd be surprised if Rupert made foxnews.com a pay site.  It's really more of a limited content promotional tool for FNC.

[Bostech]

Real Americans pay for news.

[urbanlibertarian]

I don't think so.