MacDailyNews Take: There are no other devices like the iPad. And, even when Apple’s roadkill finally do manage to launch things that claim to be “like the iPad,” they won’t be.
Boorstin continues, “This new digital news venture would incorporate text, photo and video, tailored for the iTunes app format …. neither a newspaper nor a news website — it would not be based on any of News Corp’s existing papers… [It] could be announced within a month.”
“News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch has long expressed his commitment to subscriptions, recently launching paywalls for his two uk newspapers,” Boorstin reports. “His Wall Street Journal subscription app has established a strong track record with Apple’s Steve Jobs.”
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[Attribution: MacRumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Fux Fox
You 2!
Fox Sux
If it’s like the rest of Murdoch’s yellow rags and Republican “Truth” Ministry (Faux Newz), I’ll pass. I’d still like to know the backroom deal with then Speaker Gingrich where he was granted expidited US Citizenship so he could by TV stations in the US. Shortly after Gingrich had a book via his publisher.
Embracing new media can be a good thing for old media guys. How the old media guys deal with current print subscribers while migrating to iPad-enabled digital representation will be interesting. Charging print subscribers for digital distribution is not necessarily a wise move.
I’ll wait till MSNBC or CNN come up with something like this. Although the concept is intriguing, I’m more comfortable with the liberal slant of the two aforementioned news organizations, than the conservative slant of Murdoch/Fox News.
Not that I’m close-minded or anything, I just refuse to listen to anything that criticizes Obama or the democrats.
And just to make sure I stay consistent, I do not only not watch Fox News, but I also don’t watch the Fox network (Sorry, Simpsons) or movies from 20th Century Fox.
When a single rogue like Murdoch and his evil Fox News dares to question the role of big government/not loving democrats in a “you complete me way” our response must be unified and severe. Cut the Fox machine off at the knees. Then relax and watch some Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow or the more objective people like Chris Matthews and bask in the warmth of their hate for the right.
Hey I got one. Sit down because you’re going to laugh your ass off. You know how it’s called “Fox News”, right? Try this: “FAUX News” ha ha. Get it? Lol I just came up with that, a brilliant idea if I do say so myself.
People should be listening to everyone and formulating opinions that way. It’s not the ones who announce their differing views that tou need to worry about. It’s the ones you want to believe that can dupe you.
MW “evidence” as in Get some.
I don’t need to listen to Fox to know what they’re going to say. They’re right wing propaganda machine. Murdoch’s noise won’t be on my iPad; that’s what freedom is all about.
What’s the deal with the rotate lock on the 3GS with iOS4?
Can’t turn off what I didn’t turn on!
I think, the APP store was extremely good to begin with, but now it has become quite a mess. Particularly because of the huge amount of apps. Maybe subcategorizing would be helpful and in adition a more advanced search function.
As for portable newsmagazines, I certainly would be willing to pay for subscribtion. Only jurnalism which is financially payed by the actual readers is forced to do decent jurnalism.
I they suck, the readers stop subscribing. It’ as simple as that. All freely available newspapers I know are really catastrophic.
http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/ipad/best-20-free-ipad-apps.html
This thread never had a chance to be Apple/iPad/iPhone-centric.
Crap in = Crap out.
I will not pay for crap.
Don’t go there Rupert, Don’t go there!
I am no FOX fan–their hypocrisy and lack of consistacy are both social and political, but MDN is the wrong forum for defending or criticizing FOX.
If you value a free Internet you should resist any move News Corp. are making with regards to digital content. They want to turn it into the same old style business model they’ve used with newspapers, only without the overheads of actual print and distribution.
Seriously, avoid or we’ll all be paying more in the long run.
WSJ
Let’s see.. paper version, ipad version, iPhone version, new, specially designed ipad version and super duper professional PRO version. You can pay for the same information multiple ways! AND, you get the spaghetti brained wsj opinions as well. The only thing I don’t see is Rupert’s Page 6.
Steve is a progressive, burn.
Fox may be right leaning and it showed through in the opinion shows, but the news segments are usually clean. Unlike MSM that tried to protect Obama by news omission, or worse colluded to get him elected and his extreme left aganda passed.
JOURNOLIST, anyone?
You have to give some kudos to Fox – they know that hot chicks talking politics means ratings.
I need to make more money from you all!!!
Of course the pay walls for his two uk newspapers isn’t exactly a great success at the moment. Might help if they offered something unique but hopefully this move might be an attempt to do just that.
No more free Internet anything. You pay for it.
“You have to give some kudos to Fox – they know that hot chicks talking politics means ratings.”
That’s subtle for them. News Corp here just get the ladies to flap their baps out when you turn the front page. Mind you, most of the newspapers do too.
@R
Valid points – collect information from a range of sources and make your own judgments. However, there is no reason to spending much time listening to highly flawed sources. A few minutes here and there are sufficient to fill in the rest of the day/week/year/decade…
I bumped in to someone over the weekend who was excited about the prospect of 6 and 8 inch ipads. anyone know if this is more than a rumor?