Step 1. Make all official news media online sites subscription only.
Step 2. Use political power, donations (otherwise known as backhanders, kickbacks and bribes) to have bloggers and independent online journalists outlawed or licensed in an attempt to shut them down, thus once again having a monopoly on what is and isn't available to the public.

The corporate news entertainment businesses have had their own way for too long and, with the internet availability and free content, have seen revenues drop substantially as they no longer control information. This applies as well to the government who find it increasingly difficult to suppress issues in national / regional press outlets, when independent or foreign sources are outside their control. Control is of course what it's all about. As long they control what we see and hear, they will remain powerful.

[edit on 6-8-2009 by Britguy]

Personally I would never pay anything to read online news .
I always thought that the majority of their profit was gained through advertisements anyway .
The way things are currently , its a stupid move on his part imo .
Who is gonna pay to look at a news website , when hardly anything in it is really news anyway .
No one .

No one is reading murdoch's or any corporate press because it is made up trash. Why would people pay for this when you can get better for free? People are becoming aware of the collusion between big media and government and don't trust it.

What is scary is there is only one way having paysites will work at all, and that is to get rid of free content competition. You can bet the industry will push for licenses to get rid of "unprofessional" (ie non-propaganda) sources.

Journalism may not be cheap..., but it is 'easy'.

Why pay for one organization's controlled and confabulated view of 'news' ala entertainment?

For these industrialist of 'journalism' it's about attracting advertising; thus engendering sensationalized, lowest-common-denominator glamor and flash, as well as a pandering attitude towards advertisers, rather than their readers.

That is what they dare call 'news.'

It was their base philosophy that created the need for REAL news reporting, which is what Murdoch and his 4 or 5 co-owner 'robber barons' of media call a 'free for all.' We certainly can't have that!

I'm sure the most distasteful part of the tag is that it contains the words 'free' and 'for all.'

He obviously hasn't heard of copy and paste... his business model is destine to failure

Personally I see political capitalism at work choking off the first ammendment
"Freedom of Speech" come from Murdoch.

Its a double edged sword to control journalism for national security. You can stop the foreign press from spinning propaganda by controlling it inside your own country, or you can spin it to promote your own propaganda upon another country.

My vote goes to NPR for good journalism cause I'm sick and tired of the yellow sensationalism off the fox news channel.