Google To Let News Groups Set Daily Reader Limits

By GottaLaff

Breaking:

Google said [...] it will let publishers set a daily limit on the number of articles readers can view for free through the Internet giant's search engine. The change, which will let publishers limit readers to five free articles per day...

I hope I have enough money to stay informed.

News Corp may get paid to take its news websites off Google

By GottaLaff

Rupert the Pirate wants us to pay to access his sites? Good thing I don't go anywhere near them:

Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. [...]

News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has said he wants to make people pay for access to his news websites. Other publishers including The New York Times are also searching for ways to charge for news online, convinced that they must not give news through search engines such as Google and Yahoo Inc.

I'll miss Frank Rich.

Rupert Murdoch: No more free news on the Internets

By GottaLaff

If we have to start paying for news online, then my blogger days are over:

News mogul believes media sites can’t survive failing business model

The billionaire CEO of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, is sounding the death knell for free Internet news delivery.

At least for Fox News and the many other online media outlets Murdoch controls.

Two things: 1) I rarely read anything Fox News posts, but 2) Rupert owns everything, so, potentially, there go some of my sleaziest, most unreliable sources.

Murdoch feels that, despite the global economic turndown, charging for access to news is not only the right thing to do, it’s the wave of the future. [...]

Murdoch is so bullish on the near future that he expects moves to charge readers at the websites of Fox News, The Times, The Sun and others within a year’s time. [...]

“The current days of the [free] Internet will soon be over.”

The good news?

Some might argue that Murdoch is grasping at straws as his vast portfolio flounders.

Good thing I don't frequent his floundering sites.