As if he’d know
Rupert Murdoch to the FTC:
Technology makes it cheap and easy to distribute news for anyone with Internet access, but producing journalism is expensive.
True. Phones don’t just illegally tap themselves, and making police investigations magically disappear is also an expensive business…
However, his implied public service argument falls down on an obvious point: none of the expensive reporting the soon-to-be-paywalled News of the World does is of any benefit whatsoever to anyone. So a footballer’s dad is willing to buy some Bolivian marching powder, or a vicar shagged a tart; see my rock of indifference the size of the Ritz.
On the other hand, the reporting that the non-paywalled New York Times did into the NotW’s crooked ways, and super-dodgy relationship with the Metropolitan Police, is well worth anyone’s money. Funny the way that tends to work…
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