Would You Pay for Online News? - Ken Auletta

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/10/Googled_The_End_of_the_World_As_We_Know_It

"Googled" author Ken Auletta delves into the problems online news sites like the Wall Street Journal would face if they blocked search engines from indexing articles. Comparing Internet companies to early broadcast networks, Auletta argues for finding another income strategy to supplement advertising revenues.

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Ken Auletta talks about Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta tells the story of how Google formed and crashed into traditional media businesses -- from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft.

With unprecedented access to Google's founders and executives, Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. - Book Passage

Ken Auletta is a New Yorker contributor whose work on "The Information Age" helped popularize the idea of the information super highway. His books include Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way and Backstory: Inside the Business of News.

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[Prina76]

I allready pay for the internet, i will not pay for news!

[GovWillKillU]

why would i pay for bought off reporters and biased journalism? that to me is worthless.

street level, alternative media is the future; and because its so spread out and holds its only legitimacy in NOT being biased or bought off, alt media cannot be stopped..

[ahclancy]

We must pay. Get the news out of the hands of cable and such. Free it so it can be mixed with a plurality of news sources. Surfacing a landslide of news bringing the broader truth to those currently smothered under the weight of government & media controlled news spigots. It MUST be opened to the Internet. Vital to the new world of individual awareness, not simply collective social awareness.

[ahclancy]

Yes. I would pay for mainstream media over the Internet. Gladly. As long as I can get Global news and read it from anywhere I travel (within reason). It is useless, US government sanitized/authorized and I hate their blackout of real news. But getting a take on the social mindset of the masses of led sheep is very important. Same for the trading news channels. It is no longer about global finance, rather global gambling theater in a shadow world. All necessary to get a take on.

[lumpfish99]

the msm are a bunch of crooks and liars, they present info in a way that creates an illusion of authority.....i have read blogs where people have done more research.....and you want people to pay for lies???

[lumpfish99]

first of all no need to be rude, second im not suggesting everything should be free but i do believe that info should be free and accesible to educate people. if they start charging online someone will create a different search engine. if people dont get free info they are easy to control, perhaps thats what you would prefer....??? its called facism......

[denbowan]

Sentiment aside, he needs to show some evidence for his assertions.

[amzuel420]

Would I pay for online news?....Maybe if I could believe any of it. If that were the case, it'd be a hell of a lot better deal than what we're getting now.

[RoyaIIioness]

So Murdock isn't rich & powerful enough. He (It) wants more. Disgusting & typical.

[666norton420]

"Keep a poor and ignorant class and they will never know whats going on"

KEEP?

i'm sorry, but the masses of the 1st worlds are ignorant cause they're fucking stupid! they care for little but their own goals! hypocrites that want the rich to help them, when they themselves are complacent to 3rd worlds.

your ideals are noble, but futile in reality.

shit costs money.... pay up or stop bitching when you don' have it!

lazy fuckers... too dumb to make money?

living a life well lived gets you far...

;d