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From: Hunter on 4 Jun 2010 01:44 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:86rhuoFgr4U1(a)mid.individual.net... > Hunter wrote: > >> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most >> countries now have a government funded online news service? > > In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites with > news. > > Dubious proposition tho. > >> Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it. > > Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to > spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc. Can't remember when the ABC ever missed anything newsworthy.
From: Rod Speed on 4 Jun 2010 02:28 Hunter wrote > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >> Hunter wrote >>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most >>> countries now have a government funded online news service? There is no govt online news service in the biggest market, the US. >> In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites with news. >> Dubious proposition tho. >>> Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it. >> Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to >> spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc. > Can't remember when the ABC ever missed anything newsworthy. I can. Lots of the stuff that ends up in Austory and 4 Corners never made it to the ABC News, 7:30 Report or Lateline. And you dont get much coverage of trials at all, particularly the gory detail, presumably because they dont bother to have anyone there every day etc.
From: Hunter on 4 Jun 2010 04:15 "Andy" <nospam@> wrote in message news:ptnmd7-u43.ln1(a)fully.qualified.domain.name... > Hunter wrote: > >> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries >> now have a government funded online news service? Our is >> news.abc.net.au >> and they will never charge for it. > > Presumably the same way they 'survive' now - advertising. > Apparently they are not doing well and they are talking about starting to charge for use.
From: Zappy on 4 Jun 2010 04:52 On Jun 4, 6:15 pm, "Hunter" <hun...(a)grome.zo.oct> wrote: > "Andy" <nospam@> wrote in message > > news:ptnmd7-u43.ln1(a)fully.qualified.domain.name... > > > Hunter wrote: > > >> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries > >> now have a government funded online news service? Our is > >> news.abc.net.au > >> and they will never charge for it. > > > Presumably the same way they 'survive' now - advertising. > > Apparently they are not doing well and they are talking about starting to > charge for use. Well doesn't the WSJ charge already? I know they were talking about it. Good lcuk is all I can say.
From: Rod Speed on 4 Jun 2010 05:34
Zappy wrote > Hunter <hun...(a)grome.zo.oct> wrote >> Andy <nospam@> wrote >>> Hunter wrote >>>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most >>>> countries now have a government funded online news service? Our is >>>> news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it. >>> Presumably the same way they 'survive' now - advertising. >> Apparently they are not doing well and they are talking about starting to charge for use. > Well doesn't the WSJ charge already? Nope. > I know they were talking about it. Yes. > Good lcuk is all I can say. They might be able to get away with it. I doubt that any other of Murdoch's rags could. |