Comments on: Free the WSJ? http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/08/01/free-the-wsj/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: garhane http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/08/01/free-the-wsj/comment-page-1/#comment-79613 garhane Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:39:49 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/08/01/free-the-wsj/#comment-79613 I hate to say anything out loud that is disrespectful of something that is as big, loud, and just plain nasty as Murdoch, but has anybody noticed that his new flagship is just about to conform to the laws of capital as adumbrated by one Karl Marx. He, the angry old German with the lashing tongue, he said that capital would break though its private property boundaries with huge waves of productivity; that it would unleash, batter down, all existing barriers of gender, class, nation, and so on; he said it would present the drive to productivity as command to the capitalist with the result that capital became, in his famous phrase, its own gravedigger. Is Gates the last of a psychotic human type? Is Murdoch a characteristic example of the species acute, paranoid, sclerotic? Are these types historical minnows about to be swallowed whole by a really very big whale with Hegel stamped on its rump? Maybe we should preserve our traditions and take of few of these types, stuff and mount them in the Royal Ontario.....while they last.. I hate to say anything out loud that is disrespectful of something that is as big, loud, and just plain nasty as Murdoch, but has anybody noticed that his new flagship is just about to conform to the laws of capital as adumbrated by one Karl Marx. He, the angry old German with the lashing tongue, he said that capital would break though its private property boundaries with huge waves of productivity; that it would unleash, batter down, all existing barriers of gender, class, nation, and so on; he said it would present the drive to productivity as command to the capitalist with the result that capital became, in his famous phrase, its own gravedigger. Is Gates the last of a psychotic human type? Is Murdoch a characteristic example of the species acute, paranoid, sclerotic? Are these types historical minnows about to be swallowed whole by a really very big whale with Hegel stamped on its rump? Maybe we should preserve our traditions and take of few of these types, stuff and mount them in the Royal Ontario…..while they last..

]]> By: Tom http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/08/01/free-the-wsj/comment-page-1/#comment-79579 Tom Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:33:33 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/08/01/free-the-wsj/#comment-79579 The poor-university student in me says of course it should be free, I'm used to everything free on the internet. However, the journalist in me says it should stay behind the paywall. The WSJ is one of the few tradional media companies that has managed to embrace the internet and make some money from it. Many other newspapers are stumbling to keep up and only now figuring out the whole web thing. If anything, the WSJ is almost ahead of its time. From an advertising perspective, I think they should remain a pay-site because they would be more appealing to companies. The people willing to pay for news are great targets for advertising. The poor-university student in me says of course it should be free, I’m used to everything free on the internet. However, the journalist in me says it should stay behind the paywall. The WSJ is one of the few tradional media companies that has managed to embrace the internet and make some money from it. Many other newspapers are stumbling to keep up and only now figuring out the whole web thing. If anything, the WSJ is almost ahead of its time.

From an advertising perspective, I think they should remain a pay-site because they would be more appealing to companies. The people willing to pay for news are great targets for advertising.

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