Murdoch, iPad and Traditional Newspapers
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Just recently, Rupert Murdoch is pushing for people to pay for news. With the recent release of the Apple iPad, he thinks there's new hope for newspapers to make this dream come true.
When news had to be printed on paper, it makes sense for consumers to pay and contribute to the costs of printing. In this day and age of computers and the Internet, publishing costs are eliminated. Therefore, the advertising revenue made by newspapers should cover the costs of journalism, mainly salaries paid to journalists and their crew.If a news organisation cannot attract sufficient revenue from advertising to cover for their operational expenses, then it should look at the reasons why, instead of asking the consumer to pay for its shortfall.
If the likes of Rupert are successful in charging for news, I think people will find ways to get news for free. If they cannot, they will work together to make news free. It happened to software and encyclopedias. People wanted to minimise their software expenses, so they began collaborating on Open source software. People wanted to minimise their encyclopedia expenses, so they began collaborating on open source encyclopedias.
I am suggesting that the same phenomenon will happen with news. There is in fact an open-source news called Wikinews. Efforts like Wikinews will become even more prevalent and important if and when news organisations begin charging people to access news.
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