[color="#1C2837"][color="#474747"][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]“There are no websites, news websites or blog sites anywhere in the world today making any serious money. Some maybe break even, or make a couple of million.”[/font]
[color="#1C2837"][color="#474747"][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]- Rupert Murdoch (owner of way more television stations, movie studios, and newspapers that you)[/font][color="#1C2837"][/quote][color="#1C2837"]"A couple million" isn't serious money.
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[color="#1C2837"][color="#474747"][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]“I think most newspapers in [the US] have got to have a paywall.[/font]
[color="#1C2837"][color="#474747"][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]- Murdoch (referring to internet news)[/font][font="arial, sans-serif"][size="4"][color="#333333"][size="4"][color="#1C2837"][font="arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif"][/quote][/font][/font][color="#1C2837"]This internet thing seems to really bother these old media moguls. People sharing information in a decentralized manner, for reasons more than just profit & control -- how's a mogul supposed to just buy that up and own all the audience (thus making "serious" money)? Oh wait -- people are doing the communicating over a physical network? Let's just buy that (note the NBC Universal [old media] & Comcast [largest cable/internet provider] merger approved earlier this year).
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[color="#1C2837"][color="#474747"][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]“When they have got nowhere else to go they will start paying."[/font]
[color="#1C2837"][color="#474747"][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]- Murdoch (referring to internet news)[/font][font="arial, sans-serif"][size="4"][color="#333333"][size="4"][color="#1C2837"][font="arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif"][/quote][/font][/font][color="#1C2837"]I suppose governments could step in to protect their citizens' ability to connect & communicate with each other... though a mogul could certainly afford any politician whose representation is for sale. And perhaps the mogul could use his old media to warp public opinion to his side.

[color="#1C2837"]What do you think of media moguls?