Guy Rundle, over at Crikey.com.au, tells Rupert that no, he’s not prepared to pay for News Corp. content.
“Paying for a physical newspaper is/was something you just did, even five years ago. Now, the idea that your morning’s news would come encased in a single source seems odd – and paying for straight news items on the web (as opposed to the excellent goulash of punch and pugilistic your reading now etc) seems absurd. Who reads a newspaper website, the way they used to read a paper?”
I continue to pay for the Sunday morning paper! For some reason I enjoy sipping a cup of java while reading the paper on a lazy Sunday morning!
I agree. No one would dream of going out to buy something if they knew that they could get the same thing, and more, off the internet.