Newspaper publishers told "free is too expensive"
Speaking on the first day of the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India, Rupert Murdoch’s US leader accused the press of being the "principal architect of its greatest difficulty today".
Murdoch’s Right hand man says free is too expensive
He told the conference of more than 800 media delegates from 87 countries that those involved in the newspaper business had been "taken-in by the game-changing gospel" of digital evangelists, and asked "how can it be that the internet offered so much promise and so little profit?"
He added: "We are allowing our journalism – billions of dollars worth of it every year – to leak onto the internet. We are surrendering our hard-earned rights to the search engines and aggregators, and the out and out thieves of the digital age.
"It is time to pause and recognise this – free costs too much."
Read More: By Arif Durrani, Mediaweek.co.uk
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