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Rupert Murdoch (!) in Denial — #journalism # newspapers $NEWS $NYTIMES

Scary when even a plesiosaur as deadly and unblinking as Rupert Murdoch can’t bring himself to accept the implications of  his own premises.

“Nobody is making money with free content on the web except search,” said Murdoch, noting the trend is particularly worrisome in the newspaper publishing, where News Corp. owns a variety of assets. “People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change.”

[ no, it's not ...]

…”Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights? If you have a brand like The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, you don’t have to,” said Murdoch. “You can say thanks but no thanks.”

[ no, you can't ...]

via Article – WSJ.com.

Rielle Hunter’s baby’s birth certificate: “extraordinary” or Journalism 101?

Extraordinary? sounds like journalism 101 to me.

Charlotte Paper Obtains Birth Certificate for Alleged Edwards ‘Love Child’

NEW YORK Following up on claims by the National Enquirer regarding former Sen. John Edwards, the Charlotte Observer in his home state of North Carolina posted a story on Thursday revealing that it had taken the extraordinary step of obtaining a certain birth certificate.