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Re:Murdoch signals end of free news by jacquesm on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:20AM (#745492)
Exactly. The last audience you want to target with a for-pay news site is the Fox News audience.
Re:Murdoch signals end of free news by CalmQuiet on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:57AM (#745587)
Yes. You can find gossip everywhere online.

And news that requires no actual research/journalism can_be/is replicated everywhere - and without Murdoch's overhead.