Comments on: Advice From Wired To Google http://www.newstechzilla.com/2009/01/advice-from-wired-to-google/ Not Just Tech News...Tech FOR News Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ron http://www.newstechzilla.com/2009/01/advice-from-wired-to-google/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Ron Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:35:50 +0000 http://www.newstechzilla.com/?p=536#comment-140 I don't think the New York Times, under its current ownership, can be saved. They've had all the money in the world to throw at this problem for years now, and they've failed. Times Select, for example, was an awful idea. Most of the paper is wire service report fodder at this point; all the things they wanted me to pay to read online were things that are in my local paper for a cheaper price. Plus my local paper has coupons. Google isn't the kind of company to waste money on charity purchases, either. Rupert Murdoch might, but an early web success probably isn't going to have much interest in shackling itself to an industry in arrest (see AOL/Time Warner's horrible merger for more detail). I don’t think the New York Times, under its current ownership, can be saved. They’ve had all the money in the world to throw at this problem for years now, and they’ve failed. Times Select, for example, was an awful idea. Most of the paper is wire service report fodder at this point; all the things they wanted me to pay to read online were things that are in my local paper for a cheaper price. Plus my local paper has coupons.

Google isn’t the kind of company to waste money on charity purchases, either. Rupert Murdoch might, but an early web success probably isn’t going to have much interest in shackling itself to an industry in arrest (see AOL/Time Warner’s horrible merger for more detail).

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