The rumors were true and the New York Times today made it official: The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take. Starting in early 2011, visitors […]
Yesterday news came out that the New York Times is ready to announce a new “pay for content” model for their website. There has been a lot of talk lately of news organizations moving to this system, and with one of the leading newspapers making taking the plunge it will only be a matter of […]
There has been a lot of talk today about Murdoch wanting to have Google stop indexing his news sites. I’m not going to go into the piss poor business decision this is, but I do need to highlight this: Mr Murdoch also indicated that he would use legal methods to prevent Google and other search […]
Now that phrase has real meaning: US House Representative Wally Herger, of California’s 2nd congressional district, expressed “enthusiastic approval” of a town-hall attendee who described himself as a “proud right-wing terrorist,” newspapers in northern California report. Now if only the Democrats had the spine to exploit Herger’s sick support for a self described terrorist. Of […]
Boehner admits that we torture: While cable news outlets and major newspapers continue to use euphemisms such as “harsh interrogation tactics” to describe the Bush administration’s approach to intelligence gathering, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) used a more succinct term Thursday: “torture.” “Last week, they released these memos outlining torture techniques. That was clearly […]
Maybe he shouldn’t have spent so much trying to gobble up our media then: Murdoch, who bought The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones & Co in 2007, said online advertising, which most U.S. publishers hope will offset ad revenue declines at their print divisions, will not cover their costs. “People reading […]
There has been a lot of buzz of Rupert Murdoch slamming the media, saying they have dug themselves into a hole. Of course he is just stating the obvious, but reading through the article, there was one thing that really stuck out at me: The 77-year-old Murdoch, recalling a long career in newspapers that began […]
Yesterday Obama received about 20 endorsements from major newspapers around the country (McCain got 0). Today he receives endorsements from Christopher Hitchens and Dennis Hopper. Its amazing how many people are turning towards Obama now. McCain has damaged his brand and will probably never recover.
Republicans HATE Jon Stewart. They feel like he is some liberal God, so they always attack his show saying the viewers are “uneducated” or “not informed”. I have heard this same old line on FOX time and time again. Well let’s look at the numbers in a new poll that has just been released by […]
This sounds so damn familiar: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as “pizzas” which will now be known as “elastic loaves,” state media reported Saturday. The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental […]