I read ontheinternet yesterday that News Corp (the Murdoch-led company that owns the Sun, Times and New York Post) is set to start charging online customers for news content. There's increasingly little money to be made out of online advertising, or indeed print advertising, so the transglobal media giant is searching for additional revenue streams after announcing big losses. And the subscription wall could come down within the next 12 months.
I have much to say on this subject. I consume a lot of news - you'd expect me to - and much of that is online. There's a directness and immediacy about online news that you just can't get from a once-daily publication. But I still prefer buying a newspaper to reading my news on a website, and that's because...
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