On August 21, 2009
Will Rupert Murdoch and “Pinch” Sulzberger Consort?
In a strange-bedfellows way, it’s rather delicious to contemplate the possibility that News Corp. might become the savior of the newspaper business; the report in The Los Angeles Times today that chief digital officer Jon Miller has met with newspapers, including The New York Times, about forming a consortium to charge for online content, makes such a thing possible. The company has also reportedly met with The Washington Post Company, the LA Times’ publisher, Tribune Co., and Hearst, feeling it is best positioned to make such a plan work. If not collusion, which would, of course, be illegal, such a consortium would be the next best thing, because it would mean that if all of these newspapers would be involved,…
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