Comments on: QOTD http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090806/qotd-183/ by John Paczkowski Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric Welch http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090806/qotd-183/comment-page-1/#comment-11738 Eric Welch Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:05:01 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=22910#comment-11738 Quality journalism? Like made up facts about CES, Apple and Steve Jobs? Then refusing to admit it (and do a proper correction) when plenty of witnesses were there; and clearly state what the reporter wrote was never spoken by Apple. Yep, there's some quality journalism. Listen to John Gruber on this. Don't charge the readers, charge the advertisers! When I was in the newspaper industry, we were told over and over the subscription readers paid for barely covered the cost of printing and distribution. The journalism was paid for by the advertisers. What part of that scenario does Murdoch not understand? Or is he just too greedy, and now wants to charge for delivery of electrons? (Yes, bandwidth costs, but bandwidth doesn't have a drivers' union.) Quality journalism? Like made up facts about CES, Apple and Steve Jobs? Then refusing to admit it (and do a proper correction) when plenty of witnesses were there; and clearly state what the reporter wrote was never spoken by Apple. Yep, there’s some quality journalism.

Listen to John Gruber on this. Don’t charge the readers, charge the advertisers! When I was in the newspaper industry, we were told over and over the subscription readers paid for barely covered the cost of printing and distribution. The journalism was paid for by the advertisers. What part of that scenario does Murdoch not understand? Or is he just too greedy, and now wants to charge for delivery of electrons? (Yes, bandwidth costs, but bandwidth doesn’t have a drivers’ union.)

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