"We intend to charge for all our news websites," Mr Murdoch said.
"If we're successful, we'll be followed by all media," he added, predicting "significant revenues" from charging for differentiated news online.
He warned that "the big competition will be coming from the BBC," which offers online news for free, but said: "Our policy is to win."
There is a great in the Atlantic that questions the wisdom of such a move.
I do too.
News articles are ubiquitous. Google News gives instant access to hundreds if not thousands of articles on a particular subject at a moment's notice. To practically absolute certainty, I would not pay to subscribe for news content that I can obtain just as easily for free.
Does Murdoch's move strike anyone as a good idea? Maybe if you own BBC.
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