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16 Jul 2010 10:53

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Politics: Is Rupert Murdoch’s “Sunday Times” experiment a total failure?

  • Why would I get any of my clients to talk to The Times or The Sunday Times if they are behind a paywall? Who can see it? I can’t even share a link and they aren’t on search. It’s as though their writers don’t exist anymore.
  • An A-list entertainment publicist, via an informant for Newser dude Michael Wolff • Discussing the fate of News Corp.’s paywall model for their London-owned newspapers, The Times and The Sunday Times. Apparently, according to Wolff, it’s so bad that people who subscribe to the physical paper no longer use the Web site. Unfortunately, there are no firm numbers here. But let’s just say that putting everything behind a paywall with no free content simply doesn’t work. source
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25 May 2010 10:13

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Biz: The paywall hits: The Times and Sunday Times now cost money

  • £1 the cost for an online copy of the paper each day
  • £2 the cost for a weekly subscription
    for the titles source
  • » The first two months are free: If nothing else, Rupert Murdoch’s charges for the Times and the Sunday times won’t hit users right away. This mirrors our experience with Newsday to some degree. The major difference? It costs around half as much. It’s $2.88 versus $5 per week.
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16 Feb 2010 10:45

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Politics: The British National Party: We’re not soft, we throw out journalists

  • That we’re not going soft was shown to millions of viewers who will have seen the report of us ejecting a lying Times journalist from the press conference. That’s not the actions of a snivelling PC party, but of an organisation that has had enough of being lied about.
  • BNP President Nick Griffin • Regarding an incident where Times journalist Dominic Kennedy was forcibly ejected from a meeting where the party considered opening up beyond the British National Party’s whites-only membership. Good way to twist a fairly controversial moment, dude. source
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15 Feb 2010 09:25

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World: The British National Party knows how to welcome reporters

Dominic Kennedy of The Times got a pretty nose-grabbing welcome thanks to half a dozen security dudes forcibly removing him. Nice. source
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