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90% of The Times' online audience has gone.
Yikes! Quite a gamble, isn't it?
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I had a flash of a different time.
Long gone now....Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (Peter Cook): ... It was shortly after World War Two. Do you remember that? Absolutely ghastly business — I was against the whole thing.
Interviewer (Dudley Moore): I think we all were.
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling: Yes, well, I wrote a letter!
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PS. Also not being snarky. If I was, I'd also be targetting my own endless bitter rants. -
I see!
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the kind that I used to be paid for.
I'm intrigued.
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Here's my take on why News Ltd. is so keen to shut down the BBC's online news provision:
So far, there are only two options for monetising content; ad-supported or subscription. The former doesn't seem to work well enough, and the latter doesn't seem to work at all (since when users encounter a paywall, they usually - as mentioned - just go elsewhere).
Consolidation of media is such that one day we will wake up and find that a large proportion of the online media has instituted a group paywall, where one subscription buys access to the sites of all members.
Those operators outside of the group will wither over time, due to lack of income and associated inability to do a good job, thus furthering the position of strength of those inside. Income from the subscription could easily be divided proportionately among members.
The fly in the ointment for such a system is operations like the BBC, which are largely taxpayer funded, and would be able to continue to prosper outside the system and therefore work against forcing readers to join.
I'm not finding myself able to explain this very succinctly, but I've spent an hour on it and I'm sure you get the point. It's somewhat analagous to workers unionising.
I'm certainly not suggesting that this would be the best result for the consumer/citizen, but feel that it is inevitable that this will be tried. The current landscape (ad-supported with occasional forays into paywalls) just seems like a slow and certain death for them.
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I'm not entirely sure what I did was CBT, but it may have been
Probably was. Teaching you "to assess [your] thoughts more objectively" is pretty much exactly what CBT is.
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I'll be buying an iPad on Friday (also my birthday!) and I'm looking forward to it.
So, what are you doing with your old one?
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Gotta say, the phrase "Hard News: Behind the Paywall" was momentarily rather worrying.
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And what's with Key's reasoning for the implementation of the one-day medical certificate thing?
Because some meatworkers took three Mondays in a row off?!
It's so ridiculously minor and specific that it really just sounds, to me, like one of the large donors calling in a favour.
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Kerre Woodham and Deborah Hill Cone:
I'm sure this is just part of a clever viral marketing campaign for the new Alice in Wonderland movie.